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CHEISTIAN'S WEDDING RIM 

CONTAINING 

FIVE LETTERS, 

AND A 

SERIES OF POEMS, 

WRITTEN BY A LADY 



WITH THE SINCERE DESIRE OF SOWING THE SEEDS OF UNION 
IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 



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To the Memory of a Beloved Mother. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



"WHAT IS TRUTH?" 

Our God abundant is in Truth, 
Love and practise it in youth, 
It is the only outward sign 
Of an inward grace Divine. 

Let nations altogether plead 

For one Holy Truthful creed ; 

One that will Christ-like fruits produce, 

With a new and fragrant juice. 

We will not then to evil cleave, 
Nor ourselves and friends deceive ; 
All will be open, pure and bright, 
Each a burning shining light. 

While strangers to this wond'rous grace 
Doom'd must be the human race ; 
But when we reproduce this gem, 
It the flood of sin will stem. 

Search then, for Truth, our God's great gift, 
It will all our actions sift ; 
When we its banner do display 
Never more will we decay. 

Then all earth's great and mighty throng, 
With one universal song 
Will chant the Great Creator's praise 
As they walk in wisdom's ways. 



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THE SABBATH MORN". 



In the quiet of your chamber, 
In the early Sabbath dawn, 

Eise and converse with your Maker, 
Like singing-birds in the morn. 

We need not now, like Sainted Mary, 
In the grave-clothes seek our Lord,— 

You will find Him bright and early, 
He will answer you each word. 

From His mansion up above us 

He considers all our ways ; 
He requires no such work and fuss, 

As man's making now-a-days, 

About rituals and crosses, 

And some other foolish things ; 

'Tis His sacraments he watches, 
To His Sabbath Day he clings. 

Oh ! watch then, ye men and maidens, 
Try your actions in the light, 

God is coming to His garden, 

To make all things pure and bright. 



INTRODUCTION TO THE CHRISTIAN'S WED- 
DING RING. 

O let me sing a note of praise, 

Let ev'ry note through earth resound,. 

One that will make all voices raise 
A strain to draw all nations round. 

It must be simple, sweet and pure, 
Each heart must play upon the string, 

The harmonies must be so sure 

That earth will loud its praises ring. 

Five tones this melody requires, 

Four parts to be together sung, 
A skilful leader full of fire, 

With instruments in concert strung. 

The words all drawn from Holy Writ, 

That source from which all knowledge springs r 

Without the hollow earthly wit 
Which constantly around us rings. 



Hear! oh ye kings, give ear princess ! 

Christian unity I sing. 
Let our love, the heart's best incense, 

All heathen minds to Jesus bring. 

When we weed and rake our garden, 
Cherish this sweet and lovely plant, — 

Earth will be the lovely Eden 
All our senses will enchant. 

The curse Christ will from earth efface 
When we in love God's truth embrace 

Man's labor will some work achieve — 
The Tree of Life will drop its seed. 



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To Her Royal Highness Victoria Adelaide Mary 
Louisa, Crown Princess of Prussia. 

Dear Christian Princess : 

You who have tasted all the happiness that is to be 
found in the world in its present state, and have also 
in the death of your dear father been made perfect 
through suffering, will perhaps be prepared to look 
forward with one of the humble subjects of Queen 
Victoria to the time when the evil spirit will be 
banished from the earth, and man will be restored to 
that state of perfect happiness in which he was first 
created ; but, before that time can arrive, woman must 
put forth her energies for the reformation of the 
world. It was woman's influence that induced man 
to disobey, it must be woman's influence that will 
make man obedient. God made light and goodness ; 
man chooses darkness and evil. This world has been 
and still is the battle-field of two great Spirits ; and, 
from the creation of man, the Evil Spirit has always 
succeeded in making woman a willing instrument for 
the accomplishment of his designs ; he has had power 
to tempt her with the pleasures and vanities of the 
world, but it must not be so now. When the seventh 
angel sounded we are told " The four and twenty 
elders which sat before God on their seats fell upon 
their faces and worshipped God, saying, we give thee 
thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, 
and art to come, because thou hast taken to thee thy 
great power and hast reigned," Eev. xi. \Q-Vl. When 
God's Holy Spirit reigns the temptations of the 
world will no longer prevail. From the sentence of 
Adam we learn that God requires perfect obedience. 
After God had made known his will to .Noah, respect- 
ing the ark, we are told that he did according to all that 
God commanded him. Gen. vi. 22. And to Moses God 
said " what thing soever I command you observe to 



do it, thou shall not add thereto nor diminish from it. ' 
Deut. xii. 32. Christ taught His disciples that no 
divided service would satisfy the great Father of 
mankind." " Ye cannot serve God and Mammon," 
Matt. vi. 24, are His own words. Thus it is quite 
plain if we wish the punishment of our sins to be 
removed ; if we desire our last enemy, death, to be 
destroyed, and sickness, pain and sorrow to be with- 
drawn from the earth we must give up all our crooked 
ways, and adhere closely to the rules laid down and the 
example set by our Blessed Lord and Saviour in God's 
holy word. Common sense and one's own conscience 
tell us that the Bible has been written by men, not 
angels, under the influence of God's Holy Spirit to 
guide us to the paths of peace and holiness. All 
Christians accept it as the word of God. It is an 
inexhaustible mine, which has through the devices 
of the evil one produced different kinds of ore. But 
the Tree of Life, like the gold in the mine, is there, 
and will be found when Christians make a united 
effort to dig, purify and circulate the pure metal. 
There is not a man, woman or child living who in 
sight of a rich mine would not try and extract some 
ore for the benefit of his perishing body, yet many 
pious souls are contented to take the Bible second- 
hand, leaving the soul's nourishment in the hands 
of the church or sect to which the accident of birth 
has attached them. They thus lose the privilege of 
having direct intercourse with their Maker ; they fail 
to make themselves known to God, and must bo in 
danger of hearing Christ say " verily T say unto you 
I know you not. — " Matt. xxv. 12. Every individual 
should search the Scriptures, day by day, for the 
purpose of learning how to please God, which alone 
can make us happy; Christ's commandment is " Search 
the Scriptures. — John v. 39. The disciples searched 
them daily. — Acts xvii. 11, we learn in them that "God 



is Love," 1st John iv. 8, and he requires pure love 
from his creatures. When Christians are united in 
their mode of worship, they will make love the great 
principle of their actions, instead of being wrapped 
up in self and its surroundings. We must bring our 
minds to see that the whole human race are all 
children of one great Creator. We will then 
realize the greatness of the work of creation and 
redemption, and we will look forward with faith to 
the time when God will glorify the earth, yes, drive 
from it evil and its consequences, of sickness, sorrow 
and death, for could we but give up the little taste of 
sin that our Father Adam gave us a relish for, this 
world would become the Paradise it was before the 
Fall. The first sacred ordinance we are informed of 
is matrimony ; it is true, it is not necessary to salva- 
tion, but, if engaged in with the basis of true love and 
with the blessing of Cod, it is a sacrament, from the 
abuse of which springs all the misery in the world. 
Woman was created to be the comforter, companion, 
friend of man. When two persons approach the 
altar with true love in their hearts, imploring Cod's 
blessing on their union, breaking a wine glass and 
spilling the wine, or using a ring as an outward sign, 
they perform a sacramental service, and Christ's 
presence at the marriage feast must have been intend- 
ed to show that it was a sacred service ; and by his 
changing the water into wine, he endeavoured to 
teach them what he afterwards told them that " they 
twain shall be one flesh." Death may part, but cannot 
sever the tie^ and though the Devil has induced men 
to make laws of divorce, no such laws are of any use, 
for Christ has said " what therefore God hath joined 
together, let not man put asunder. — " Mat. xix. 6. 
Now it is engaged in lightly, with little knowledge 
of each other's character, in fact without anything 
solid for its basis. The female education is not 



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practical ; there is little or no preparation for the 
solemn service to be engaged in, but the outward 
adorning of the body. Flirting is the device which 
the Devil is using to destroy the pure actions of the 
heart; even little children flirt in this age; the sim- 
plicity of childhood is destroyed by it ; the habit from 
practise becomes part of the nature. The married 
woman must have beaux, one husband is not enough ; 
she in her youth has been deceived, she in turn 
becomes a deceiver, and life is one constant scene of 
acting. The holy and sacred feeling of love which 
God planted in the heart of man, that mystic bond of 
union, which enables us to anticipate each other's 
wishes, to live as it were out of self in each other, 
becoming day by day purer and holier, guiding each 
other on the road that leads to the Holy City that St. 
John saw coming down out of Heaven. — Rev. xxi. 2 — 
this love, like the cactus that blooms once in a 
hundred years, is so seldom seen that when it appears 
it is not appreciated, and dies out for want of culture. 
It is the object of the evil spirit to make us believe 
that happiness consists in outward appearances, to 
possess riches, honor, and power he persuades us to 
lie and deceive, slowly fettering on the chains which 
bind us to the grave. Christian women, to break these 
chains, destroy the works of the Devil, and arrest the 
angel of Death, is a noble work; I call you to 
enlist in it ! The English language is the only one 
that can boast of a word so expressive as the word 
home ; every home should be a haven of rest, a place 
of happiness, in which the Christian graces should 
shine as stars in the firmament. When wives and 
daughters make it the aim of their lives to make 
home happy, the angel of peace will descend to the 
earth, bringing with him happiness and plenty. 
Then wine, which was intended to make glad the 
heart of man, will no longer prove a mocker and 



deceiver, but it will strengthen and refresh as God 
intended it should. Every action of our lives will be 
guided by principle, and God's glory will be the chief 
end of man. The members of each household will 
then try to do some daily duty for the comfort of its 
inmates ; home amusements will be encouraged, and 
presided over by the parents ; and, instead of the 
constant whirl of excitement which people call 
pleasure, real happiness will be found in the domestic 
circle. The majority of mankind will cease to lead 
a slavish, selfish life in pursuit of gold, for it will 
appear quite plain that less means are needed to 
make people truly happy. 

The mind and body which now engross all our 
attention will yield a third of their attentions to 
the souL But ere this great Millenium time arrives 
women have an arduous work to do. There are, you 
will say, pure and virtuous women called nuns, who 
have withdrawn from the world ; granted, but have 
not each of these nuns left their home duties unper- 
formed, and could not each nun have done more good 
in her own home if she had overcome her tempta- 
tions there than she has done in the convent, for stone 
walls do not keep men and women from bowing 
down to Satan's devices. Christ says : " I pray not 
that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but 
that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." — John 
xvii. 15. The evil spirit stirs every heart with envy, 
jealousy and passion, and makes both religious and 
irreligious people bow before his idol of gold. No 
matter where the christian is, one or other of his 
temptations will overcome him unless his soul, guided 
by the Holy Spirit, is washed in his Saviour's blood 
and looks to God alone for strength with which to 
resist all evil influences. The Blessed Virgin, the 
mother of Jesus, has set us the example of retiring to 
our homes in time of trouble, for St. John tells us : 



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from the hour of our Saviour's crucifixion, " that 
disciple took her unto his own home." — John xix. 27. 
If the Blessed Yirgin and the disciples could return to 
their home duties after witnessing such a scene as 
the crucifixion of our Lord, surely that is the place 
where we should strive to serve and worship God and 
learn submission to his will. "When Joseph's heart 
overflows with love for his brother Benjamin, he orders 
the ruler of the house to " bring these men home, and 
slay, and make ready." — Genesis xliii, 16. After Sam- 
uel anoints Saul to be king, he " sent all the people 
away, every man to his house." — 10th of 1st Sam. 25. 
Saul also went home to Gibeah. — 26th verse of same. 
Habakkuk classes " the one who keepeth not at home" 
with the proud and those who are fond of wine in his 2 
chap., v. When Jesus healed the man with the unclean 
spirit he desired him to "go home to thy friends." — 
Mark v. 19. Those three beautiful parables in Luke 
xv. all teach us to rejoice in our homes, first, over 
any stray sheep which we may help back to the fold ; 
secondly, over any lost jewel, " which may mean vir- 
tue," which has been lost and is found, and lastly, over 
the poor prodigal sinner who returns, after long 
wandering in the paths of sin, to His Father and his 
home. There he is to be restored to life. In his home 
he is to find peace and contentment. See how beauti- 
fully Joseph provides, remark,not only for his wife and 
children, but for his father and brethren in the time 
of famine. Indeed Genesis seems to provide bread 
for each household, Genesis xlvii. 12 ; Exodus a lamb 
or meat, xii. 3. "According to the house of their 
fathers a lamb for an house." Leviticus an atone- 
ment. The priest is desired in the xvi. chapter to go 
alone into the tabernacle and make " An atonement 
for himself and for his househould, and for all the 
congregation of Israel," IT verse. Then Numbers 
teaches us in the xviii. chapter to give a tenth part of 



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our earnings to God. If we do this we may enjoy both 
the fruit of the vine and the products of the earth, for 
it is the reward of both ye and your households, 
Deuteronomy informs us, that God will reward us if 
we keep our households in order and are kind to the 
stranger, fatherless and widow, xiv. 29. Thus we see 
that the five Books of Moses are all intended to regu- 
late and make home happy. St. Paul says, " if any man 
hunger let him eat at home." — xi. of 1st Corim, 34 
verse. In his Epistle to Titus women are desired " to 
be discreet chaste, keepers at home," ii. 5. St. Luke 
tells us there was a righteous priest and his wife, of the 
name of Zacharias and Elizabeth, who was one of the 
daughters of Aaron, walking in all the commandments 
of the Lord blameless. These pious people were chosen 
to have a son, who prepared the way for the coming 
of the Messiah, but see, although they led so pure a 
life they needed a miracle to open their eye of Faith, 
and the world seems now to require some miracle or 
sign to make them believe that goodness must pre- 
vail, which reminds me that Christ has said " "When 
the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the 
earth." — Luke 18. 8. Moses says : " know therefore 
that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, 
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that 
love him and keep his commandments to a thousand 
generations," Deuteronomy vii. 9, and he requires us 
to have a perfect faith in him, Deut. xxxii. 20. " God 
will hide his face" from " children in whom is no 
faith." All the men who were chosen of God to do his 
work were men of faith. After the Patriarchs look at 
Moses who God said himself " My servant Moses" who 
is faithful in all mine house." — Numbers xii. 7. God 
warned Eli, when his sons failed to do his work well, 
that he would raise up a faithful priest, which was 
fulfilled in Samuel, he acknowledged God in all his 
ways, and set up a stone saying, " Hitherto hath tho 



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Lord helped us," 1st Sam. vii. 12, and St. Paul says 
in Hebrews xi. that time would fail to tell of the 
mighty works that have been wrought through the 
great Faith of the Patriarchs, Priests and Prophets, 
who have lived on the earth." All the people that 
the Saviour restored to health were possessed of 
great Faith, the three he raised to life were monu- 
ments of Faith. See how Jesus loved the little family 
of Bethany, and why Mary's words " Lord if thou 
hadst been here my brother had not died" shew that 
she believed that Jesus could have saved her brother's 
life if he had been there ; but she had yet to learn that 
he could raise to life, and that as God he is every 
where present, so that he could have caused " that 
even this man should not have died" but he wished to 
open their eyes and ours, and to show that in his own 
good time he will stay the hand of death, and also 
raise to life with a glorified body those that have 
left the earth in Faith in him, but to hasten this time 
we must subdue ourselves and not be conformed to 
this world. — 12 Eomans 2. We must, like our Saviour, 
be kind and thoughtful for the feelings of others, ever 
striving to make those around us happy. Every 
hour of his life was spent in acts of kindness, not to 
one particular object or pet subject, but to all and 
every person that sought his assistance, and just as he 
raised the widow's son, Lazarus, and Jairus' daughter 
so will he raise every believer, convert every Jew and 
unite every christian church, and bring all to a state 
of perfect holiness here on earth. "When the power 
of evil, which for six thousand years has bound the 
world in sin and selfishness, is chained, then what a 
paradise this earth will be ! "What a glorious time 
when we will have the privilege of walking in the 
garden like Adam with our Maker and talking to 
Jesus, hearing from his own lips the words " GrO thou 
and preach the kingdom of G-od." — Luke ix. 60, The 



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Bible says plainly that we are to expect the Lord, for 
we are told to be always ready, none can tell when he 
will come. "Let your loins be girded about, and your 
lights burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that 
wait for their Lord." — Luke xii. 35. Nearly 1900 
years ago the disciples were thus exhorted to wait ; 
there were then but a few, very few christians, now 
about one third of the world are nominally christians. 
When the disciples asked Jesus, " Lord, wilt thou at 
this time restore again the kingdom to Israel," 1 Acts 
6, he refused to satisfy their idle curiosity, but told 
them that they should bear witness to his work to all 
parts of the earth, and, though we are not allowed 
to know the times or seasons of his coming, still it is 
right to be always expecting. " Watch ye, therefore, 
for ye know not when the master of the house 
cometh." — Mark xiii. 35. Until the harvest we are told 
the good and bad are to grow together. David says : 
All the kindreds of the nations shall worship before 
thee. — Psalm xxii. 27. His rest shall be glorious. — 
Isaiah xi. 10 ; Micah iv. 4. But they shall sit every man 
under his vine and under his fig tree, and, 8th verse, 
and thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the 
daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the 
first dominion. The kingdom shall come to the 
daughter of Jerusalem." ii. 12 says, surely I will 
gather the remnant of Israel with numberless others. 
One miracle we are distinctly told to look for at that 
time, in Isaiah xi. 15. The Lord shall utterly destroy 
the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty 
wind, shall he shake his hand over the river, and 
shall smile in the seven streams and make men go 
over dry shod. 

This prophecy may mean (remark the writer does 
not say that it does) but it may mean that the Lord 
will utterly destroy the sea of wickedness which has 
spread itself through the earth ; that he will penetrate 



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with his Spirit the most intricate windings of the 
secret paths of sin, and then smite those streams of 
selfishness which are drowning the souls of men, and 
lead us in the paths of holiness and peace, for Christ 
came that we might have life, yes that we might 
have it more abundantly. The devil's pride is so 
great that he has even said, I will ascend above the 
heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High. — 
Isaiah xiv. 14. For this purpose he persuaded men 
to build the tower of Babel, whose top was to reach to 
Heaven. This tower, was no doubt a sort of round 
church, through which the devil persuaded men that 
they should gain the mansions of the blessed. But 
the great Spirit soon dispersed these vain ideas, and 
has been trying to teach men ever since that by no 
human stairs but only through faith in Jesus and 
obedience to his commands will that end be obtained. 
The time is coming when Satan and his works will 
be unveiled, then will be asked the question : " Is this 
the man that made the earth to tremble, that did 
shake kingdoms," xiv. 16. For some wise purpose he 
is allowed to indulge in his mad thoughts for a time, 
and to fill men's minds with the same. See, for exam- 
ple, how he has persuaded Professor Darwin to assert 
that man was originally a monkey, man, whose soul 
is offered the benefits of the sacrifice of a perfect 
human body with the Divine nature wherein to wash 
and be clean. An antidote for the poison which the 
evil Spirit has inserted in our veins, and yet clever 
men allow intellectual pride to be the ruin of their 
souls. Surely any trial, no matter how severe, that 
will teach us to know and feel the power of God and 
will subdue the pride of body or mind to the saving 
of the immortal part of our being, should be received 
thankfully and borne patiently, for the greatest im- 
provements in science that can be made can only 
add a little more knowledge and comfort for a few 



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fleeting years, but the victory of good over evil will 
cause to hear the " Great Yoice saying, Behold the 
Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them and be their God." — Eev. 
xxi. 3. 

The many new devices that the evil Spirit is now 
using to keep mankind from loving the Great Creator 
draws our thoughts to the words of St. Paul to Timothy, 
now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter 
times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to 
seducing spirits and doctrines of devils," 1 Tim. iv. 1, 
and Professor Darwin's theory, that man was origi- 
nally a monkey, is without doubt, a doctrine of the 
evil Spirit. It is his object to conceal from us the 
fact that our souls can never die, and that two places 
are prepared to receive them. God has warned us that 
a fire " shall burn into the lowest Hell." — Deut. xxxii. 
22. "Hell and destruction are never full." — Prov. 
xxvii. 20. "Hell hath enlarged herself and opened her 
mouth without measure." — Isaiah v. 14. And he has 
told us that " The fining pot is for silver and the fur- 
nace for gold, but the Lord trieth the hearts." — Prov. 
xvii. 3. Thus it is plain our own actions must deter- 
mine the future state of the soul. We are free to choose 
this day whom we will serve. — Joshua xxiv. 15. In all 
great battles the soldiers fight for the cause they have 
espoused, so in this great war we fight either against 
the temptation of the evil Spirit and overcome by the 
help of the sword of the Spirit, and the armour of 
Faith, or we yield to the arts of the tempter and sink 
gradually and imperceptibly into his power when we 
find the oil of God's lamp gone out and our souls like 
a benighted traveller on a dark night who has lost 
his way seeking for the road from which we should 
never have strayed, for " the path of the just is as the 
shining light that shineth more and more unto the 



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perfect day." — Prov. iv. 18, and it is only by walking 
in this path that we can become like the being Adam 
was before he sinned. " At that day shall a man 
look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to 
the Holy One of Israel. And he shall not look to the 
altars the work of his hands, neither shall respect 
that which his fingers have made, either the groves or 
the images." — Isaiah xvii. 7, 8. And Ezekiel, in his 
36th chap., sees this desolate earth once more looking 
"like the garden of Eden." In those days men will 
realize that there are four temples, not four religions, 
for the latter four will entwine themselves around the 
parent vine, and the birds of the air will lodge in the 
branches. 1st. All will then know Christ as the true 
temple. 2nd. Every believer as a living temple. 3rd. 
The gospel church as the mystical temple.— Eph .ii. 21. 
4th. Heaven the everlasting temple. All will see the 
necessity for public and private prayer, both of which 
our Lord taught by example and precept. To public 
prayer he alluded when he said, " If two of you shall 
agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall 
ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is 
in heaven, for where two or three are gathered 
together in my name, there am I in the midst of 
them." — Matt, xviii. 19. These words, an eminent 
Divine calls the " charters of public worship. In these 
we seem to approach God as a society incorporated 
by the royal charter of his Son, uniting in prayer 
for the same wants and petitions." 

The beautiful liturgy of the Episcopal Church is 
suitable to the wants of all mankind, and it has the 
advantage of a perfect agreement between minister 
and people. There are times, no doubt, when extem- 
pore prayer is a benefit, but in the House of God 
minister and people are not agreed, unless both are 
uttering the same words at the same time. No one 
oan know what the minister is goiiig to say before 



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he utters it. In the Romish mass the priest offers 
the mass for the people and prays for them in an 
unknown tongue, so they are not agreed. It thus 
follows that, if we fall short in practise, we have the 
greater cause for humiliation because the privilege 
both of the doctrine and discipline of prayer in which 
priest and people are both agreed is what Christ 
commands. But it is not sufficient that priest and 
people utter the same words at the same time ; the 
hearts of both must be lifted with the words, to the 
throne of God ; we must try to feel a holy reverence 
in His temple for the great God who condescends to 
allow us to worship in a house made with hands his 
great and glorious majesty. Our first aim should be 
to realize that God is everywhere, in earth, and sky, 
and sea, and though not now visibly present in the 
temple, as he appeared in the Shekinah to the Jews, 
still he clothed himself with a perfect human body 
and dwelt among men, to show us that from child- 
hood to manhood we may overcome evil with good, 
and, though he has withdrawn his human body from 
the earth, His Holy Spirit communes with our spirit 
in the bread and wine at his own table, exactly in 
the same way as it did in that glorious Sight in which 
he spoke to man from off the mercy seat, " Take eat 
this is my Body" "This is my blood of the New 
Testament. — " Mark xiv. 22, 24. Eemark that Christ 
does not say that he changes the bread and wine into 
his body and blood, but that he inhabits it. His 
Spirit is to be found in it by the use of a perfect 
faith, and the soul that has had the spirit of goodness 
planted in it through the waters -of baptism, has 
renewed and strenghtened these vows at the hands of 
a bishop in confirmation, and is constantly fed, at 
regular and stated periods, with the Holy Fire in the 
bread and wine, will, through this perfect faith, daily 
increase in holiness and in the knowledge of the Lord. 



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Ezra says, that the Tirshatha " said unto them that 
they should not eat of the most holy things till there 
stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim. — 
Ezra, ii. 63. This was something attached to the breast 
plate by which the mind of God was made known to 
the high priest when enquired of them in cases of 
difficulty. Now Christ was that priest, he both knew 
and did the will of God ; therefore the time has come 
for us to eat of holy things as allowed by the 
Tirshatha. Spiritual life requires spiritual food to 
sustain it. All creeds and all nations can agree to 
supply their bodily wants ; at the same market ali 
feed and dress their bodies with the richest and best, 
at regular and stated intervals ; but alas ! how divided 
how careless, how unsettled, are the arrangements 
for the nourishment of the soul — that soul which is 
always progressing either in good or evil ! It may 
be that it has three progressive states, finding per- 
fection only when found worthy to become an angel 
in the third heaven. The first state of trial, the 
present, which is passing rapidly away. The second 
the place to which our Lord descended when his Holy 
Spirit left his perfect body, which groaned under the 
separation, for it exclaimed, " My God my God why 
hast thou forsaken me. — Mat. xxvii. 46. It is the body 
that speaks,the soul and spirit travel to that unknown 
land but are speechless, Christ went then to the place 
where our spirits go when they leave the body. 
It cannot be that they there enjoy the presence 
of God ; for after Christ rose from the grave he told 
Mary not to touch him for he had not yet ascended 
to his Father, then he shewed himself " alive after his 
passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 
forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to 
the kingdom of God." — Acts, i. 3 ; and this kingdom 
will be the third and last place of trial, or perhaps 
preparation would be a better word, for the glory 



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which awaits us. Isaiah says, men have not heard nor 
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O 
God, besides thee, what he hath prepared for him that 
waiteth for Him. — " Isaiah lxiv. 4. The three first 
chapters in the Bible shew what misery ^dam 
brought on the human race by listening to the 
suggestions of the Evil Spirit. The three last chap- 
ters in the Bible show what happiness he will regain 
when he follows the guidance of the Good Spirit. 
The Evil Spirit does not give us even a few years of 
perfect happiness in return for all our service. The 
influence of the Good Spirit causes the Soul to do 
good and great works which are always like the even 
and regular ebbings of the tide returning to the 
mind with pleasing and happy thoughts, bringing to 
it peace and contentment, which speaks of something 
lasting, something great to be obtained from a loving 
and heavenly Father. Earthly parents spoil their 
children by over-indulgence, they fail in not teaching 
them that this earth is yet a divided kingdom, and 
that earthly desires are not always to be granted, the 
consequences are that the pleasing of the body is the 
ruling passion. Thus the body becomes unaccustom- 
ed to any act of self denial and unprepared to deny 
itself any fancied pleasure. Those who do sell their 
souls for the gratification of any evil passion have 
but little enjoyment. Thus the drunkard finds plea- 
sure in drinking, but how does he feel when he is 
sober. The miser finds pleasure in his gold, how 
does he feel when he loses it or leaves it. The sharper 
finds pleasure in cheating you, if he gains but a few 
dollars by the act, how does he feel when he thinks 
of the account of his stewardship which he must one 
day give. The smuggler is delighted if by conceal- 
ing some lace and gloves on his person he can deceive 
the officer, by so doing he may deceive them, but 
does he thus think to deceive his God, alas, no ! — 

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"x\ll things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him 
with whom we have to do."- Heb. iv. 13. But good- 
ness though slandered, abused, and despised sees in 
the distance the city that " had no need of the sun, 
neither of the moon, to shine in it ; for the glory of 
God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof." — 
Kev. xxi. 23, and feels the cross light that leads him 
to the gates, those gates which Christ will open to 
those that approach the Father through him, for he 
has said " I am the way, the truth and the life. The 
wicked do not enjoy the company of the good, even 
in the present state of the world, how can they hope 
to enjoy a city "that there shall in no wise enter 
into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever 
worketh abomination or maketh a lie." — Rev. xxi. 
27. Christians are now like a house divided against 
itself, our Lord warned us that such a house 
cannot stand. If the great struggle of good and 
evil is at hand, the Devil is preparing his spirits 
to "go forth unto the kings of the earth and 
of the whole world, to gather them to the battle 
of that great day of God Almighty." — Eev. xvi. 
14. And he gathered them to that place called 
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. None can tell 
where this place is or when this battle will be 
fought, but we are told in the Bible that the result of 
it is to be the complete overthrow of the power of the 
evil Spirit ; he and all his works are to be destroyed 
and withdrawn from this beautiful earth. "With this 
end so clearly before us it especially behoves us to 
try and come to some united belief on the subject of 
sacramental rites and ordinances. Some very pious 
and clever persons believe that there are seven 
sacraments, some say there are five, some allow there 
may be three, our church teaches two only as gener- 
ally necessary to salvation. The word sacrament is 
not to be found in the Bible, but our souls must require 



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food as well as our bodies to sustain them, and Christ, 
both by precept and example, enforced the need of 
certain means which we must use if we wish to be 
washed in his blood. Baptism and Christ's own sup- 
per are as it were the principal of these, but God him- 
self instituted Matrimony, it must, therefore be a 
sacrament. Confimation, it is true, was not actually 
commanded by Christ, but then it was the custom in 
the early church, and is as it were a part of Baptism 
and so must partake of its nature. It says in Acts viii. 
16, 17, " Only they were baptized in the name of 
the Lord Jesus, then laid they their hands on them 
and they received the Holy Ghost." Every ordi- 
nance by which the soul receives spiritual food or life 
from the Holy Spirit of God must be sacramental, 
for a sacrament is really spiritual food, for they are 
the channels through which our spiritual life must 
flow, and when we partake of them in God's own way 
Christ will give us of the living water which the poor 
woman of Samaria had within her reach but failed 
to acquire. At present we are fulfilling faithfully 
the picture Christ described " five in one house 

divided, three against two, and two against three." 

Luke xii. 52. All, whether Indians, Turks or Hot- 
tentots, have immortal souls, but observe the effect 
of Baptism on the soul. Even those who have planted 
but not watered that seed with the other sacraments 
are more civilized, they have at least made one step 
in the right road. The sun, moon and stars all give 
us light, none can tell exactly which of these produces 
it because it is a thing that comes from God himself. 
We see plainly that as the body is constituted it 
needs the light of all these as also the sky to contain 
them, and the air to convey the light to us ; the loss of 
any one of them would seriously affect us. Thus 
also is the light of the soul transmitted to us. The 
sun and moon, like Baptism and the Lord's supper, 



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are absolutely necessary. The stars attending on the 
moon, like Confirmation following Baptism. The sky 
represents Matrimony, the air ordination, for it is 
through the priesthood that the sacraments are 
administered to us. This seems to prove plainly what I 
stated at the beginning, that light and goodness come 
from the good Spirit, darkness and wickedness from 
the evil Spirit, and as all God's works are regular and 
united in their movements, so if we wish to please 
him and to have him to reign over us we must become 
one on these doctrinal points and " worship the father 
in spirit and in truth." — John iv. 23. One can 
hardly realize any one accepting the ofiice of a priest 
without feeling that the ordinance which fits him for 
that ofiice is a sacrament requiring both study and 
close communion with God such as Moses and Aaron 
enjoyed. It was Christ himself who first appeared 
as a priest under the name of Melchizadec, then God 
called Aaron to be a prophet, Ex. vii. 1, or as he is 
afterwards called a priest; his successors continued in 
ofiice till our Saviour came, they perhaps do still in the 
Jewish church. Then came our Saviour in human 
form, and though not visible he is still our great High 
Priest ; but his chosen twelve apostles and seventy 
disciples left their successors who from generation to 
generation have filled, and do still fill the priestly 
ofiice inthe christian church. " The gates of hell have 
not prevailed against" the three churches which St. 
Peter planted and the branches which have sprung from 
them. The commission that Christ gave them was, "Go 
ye unto all the world and preach the Gospel to every 
creature," Mark xvi. 15, and St. Matthew gives it, "Go 
ye therefore and teach all nations,baptising them in the 
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy 
Ghost." Here their work is clearly set down to teach 
and pre. ch and baptize, had Christ given them power 
to forgive sins it would have been mentioned here. It 



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is true that St. John in his 20th chapter says that 
Christ, after bestowing on the apostles the Holy 
Ghost, said, "Whosoever sins ye remit they are 
remitted unto them and whosoever sins ye retain 
they are retained." But had this been intended to 
give them some extraordinary power of forgiving 
sins he would surely have explained it also to Thomas, 
for he was not with them, and did not believe that 
Christ had risen; but Jesus convinced him of his want 
of faith by shewing him the print of the nails and 
the hole in his side, and Thomas exclaimed at once 
" my Lord and my God," making Thomas, by his 
public confession, an example of what Christ required, 
viz., that we should, in the words of a public confession 
such as is found in our prayer book, confess our sins 
before God, and then the priest has the power to give 
a general absolution such as the one that follows it. 
But the consequence of sin is death. That, no priest has 
the power to destroy. The Jews believed that none 
could forgive sins but God alone. — Mark ii. 7. Christ 
tried to teach them that he was divine and had the 
power to drive away sin from the earth. As soon as 
he desired the man sick of the palsy to rise, " He 
arose, took the bed and went forth before them all." — 
Mark ii. 12. And as soon as he speaks the word 
the christian church which is now shaking with the 
palsy will unite and encircle the whole earth. 

The body of Christ was made " perfect -through 
suffering." — Heb. ii. 10. Christians and Christianity 
are undergoing a trial of affliction to fit them for 
greater happiness than man has ever known. Every 
thing worldly ends in death but the hope of the 
christian is life, and the triumph of Christianity will 
be the destruction of Death. The saints in heaven 
are said to have come through much tribulation. — 
Bev. vii. 14. They have encountered the evil Spirit 
and conquered him. What they have done with the 



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help of God's Holy Spirit we can do. But we never 
will conquer death till we destroy our idol and its 
worship. Idolatry never nourished more among the 
Jews than it does now among christians. Go to our 
christian meetings, what is the chief topic of conver- 
sation ? It is money. A savage suddenly transported 
from his wilds to one of our assemblies with the 
power of understanding our language, would suppose 
that money, not God's glory, was the chief end of man. 
The evil Spirit now holds such sway over the hearts 
of men that he makes both ministers and people 
believe that with money they can buy their soul's 
salvation. Congregations say, we pay the money, we 
shall have for our minister the one we choose. 
These monied men that do him worship say this 
minister must honor us, and in general they do. 
In their eagerness to obtain the cursed thing, all 
seem to forget that God has promised to give 
what is needful to those that trust in him, and 
he will both provide the individual and the church 
that labors and trusts all its wants to him. They 
need have no fears while they do their duty and what 
their conscience tells them is right. God sometimes 
tries christians sorely, demands all and every thing 
that we value to see of what our faith is made, 
whether we really believe that he has the power 
which can make all things work together for our 
good or whether our faith is a dead faith, trusting 
only in human aids and human gifts. We are free 
agents in the choice of good or evil, and though the 
banner that waves around us sometimes conceals even 
from ourselves the side on which we are fighting, yet 
the smallest action of our lives serves some great and 
allwise purpose, and is gradually preparing us either 
for an angel of light or of darkness. Christ has taught 
us the necessity of love and charity between all 
christians, ° By this shall all men know that ye are 



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my disciples. If ye have love one to another." — John 
xiii. 35. " One is your master, even Christ, and all ye 
are brethren," Matthew xxiii. 8, and his prayer that 
they all may be one, John xvii. 21, will yet, I 
believe, restore sweet and holy communion between 
all the christian churches. It is certain that such 
love did oxist in the early ages of the Church before 
earthly ambition and unchristian feelings were 
planted by the evil Spirit. We read that Peter was 
accompanied by six brethren when he went to 
Cornelius, Acts xi. 12, and when Paul departed 
from Ephesus to go to Macedonia we are told that he 
had with him, " Sopater of Berea, and of the Thessa- 
lonians Aristarchus and Secundus; and Graius of 
Derbe, and Timotheus ; and of Asia, Tychicus and 
Trophimus. — Acts xx. 4. In the three last verses of this 
chapter we read that they prayed together and wept 
very sore at parting from Paul, for they felt that they 
should see his face no more. Then in the apostles' 
time christians admitted to their communion those 
who came from other countries, they contributed to 
the relief of distressed believers in all parts, and they 
exchanged letters and advice. " A bishop in those 
days, quoted from early history, could give any mem- 
ber of his church a letter which when presented 
would admit him into all the privileges of christian 
fellowship. We have in the epistle of St. Clement, 
Bishop of Borne and the Roman church, addressed to 
the Church of Corinth before the end of the first cen- 
tury on occasion of a schism in the latter church, an 
instance of fraternal intercourse and solicitude. And 
in the following centuries, the epistle of Dyonisius, 
Bishop of Corinth, to many churches in Pontus, Crete, 
and that of the Council of Antioch to all the churches 
are further examples of the same practice. We learn 
that even in the second century, the Church of Borne 
was remarkable for the extent of its charities to the 



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distressed and persecuted christians in the East, and 
Dyonisius of Alexandria, in the following century, 
attests that the same truly christian conduct was still 
in full exercise, and its benefits were felt even in the 
remote regions of Arabia." 'Tis true that even in 
St. Paul's time the Church of Corinth was full of par- 
ties and divisions, for even Paul and Barnabas had a 
sharp contention and separated. — Acts xv. 39. Though 
they may have had different opinions on some sub- 
jects they felt one common bond of interest in their 
christian work. St. Paul exhorted them to remember 
that Christ was not divided, and St. Jude says, 
those "who separate themselves are sensual, having 
not the Spirit." — If we divide man's sojourn on 
earth into periods, the first including the time which 
elapsed from the creation to the deluge, we find that 
men grew gradually worse and worse till God swept 
him off the earth by a flood and then repeopled the 
earth again through Noah and his three sons, four 
men whose descendants soon forgot the great display 
of power which the Almighty had shown by cover- 
ing the earth with water, and filled with pride con- 
ceived the idea of building the church or tower of 
Babel. Then God, we are told, came down, and, by 
confounding their language, scattered them over the 
whole earth. Then follows the call of Abraham whose 
descendants God made his peculiar care. God watched 
over them, guarded them, guided them, and fed them 
directly from heavon, and yet they failed to worship 
him as he wished to be worshipped. Then Christ came 
on earth as a Saviour, which is the fourth period. 
" He came unto his own and his own received him 
not." — John i. 11. The Jews were his own chosen 
ones, but they were too proud to believe that God 
could condescend to come on earth in the humble 
manner in which Christ came ; and now if we are on 
the eve of a fifth period let us not, like our fore- 






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fathers, sink our ship on the rock of pride, but, uniting 
in christian love and charity, may we sail out into 
the beautiful clear blue waters, and with strong faith 
at the helm we will yet lay hold on the Tree of Life. 
But at present we are all suffering from this disease. 
The Jew cannot yet see that the world has been 
redeemed. Christians do not believe that God will 
soon glorify it. When the Holy Ghost descended 
upon the apostles " they were all with one accord in 
one place." — Acts ii. 1. So that they, at least, then 
must have been united. Has not the Almighty yet 
shown us enough of his power ? Why is it we cannot 
see that he is determined that we shall learn to know 
him through the eye of faith, such faith as will teach 
us to feel that he can make man a perfect being, 
that he can eject the poison of evil from his veins, 
and drive sin irom this beautiful earth. In 1851, 
when Prince Albert, your beloved earthly parent, 
drew together all the nations of the earth for a 
display of industry, did not man show the greatness 
of his intellect and the wonderful power of the mind 
that God has given him ; what would not that mind 
produce when united in the great Christian cause ? 
Those whose privilege it was to feast their senses on 
the beautiful structure, designated the Crystal Palace 
of Concord, in which the brotherhood of nations 
was celebrated — who gazed on the various works of 
art which filled up and decorated that earthly temple 
and greeted with acclamations of joy our beloved 
Queen and her illustrious consort, for planning and 
labouring to engage the intelligence and mechanical 
genius of all nations — should consider what a far 
greater work is waiting one great master-mind, the 
united efforts of body and soul, to prepare the world 
for the reign of Christ upon earth. The skilful 
manner in which the Germans conducted their war 
with France prove plainly that, if such a nation 



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could be induced to unite in promoting our great 
eternal interests, and make a great effort for the 
union of the Christian churches, the millennium would 
begin to dawn on the earth, — that time when Christ 
" shall come to be glorified in his saints, and admired 
in all them that believe. — " 2nd Thes. i. 10. Chris- 
tians are now indeed a stumbling block through 
their divisions. St. Paul's warning has been unheeded 
" Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours 
become a stumbling block to them that are weak." — 
1st Cor. viii. 9. Christ, as prophesied by Isaiah, is the 
stumbling stone, that they, the Jews, the builders, 
have rejected,— " And he shall be for a sanctuary; 
but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence 
to both the houses of Israel." — Isa. viii. 14; and pause 
and consider if our divisions are a stumbling block 
to the Jews. God has threatened to consume the 
stumbling blocks with the wicked. — Zeph. i. 3, and in 
in the 14th verse it says : " The great day of the 
Lord is near and hasteth greatly." They are, there- 
fore, to be destroyed before the reign of Christ ; and 
the 18th verse says, " neither their silver nor their 
gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the 
Lord's wrath ! St. John was permitted to see in a 
vision the marriage of the Lamb, the encircling of 
the Christian Church with a marriage ring. — Rev. 
xix. T. We are told that Christ will then find five 
wise virgins, and five foolish ones without oil in their 
lamps. May the Christian Church soon begin to 
trim her lamps for he comes and is near. " Blessed 
and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection j 
on such the second death hath no power, but they shall 
be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign 
with him a thousand years." It thus seems quite 
plain that we are to look forward to two resurrec- 
tions, one before the thousand years and one after ; 
those who have the privilege of coming back to this 



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earth with a glorified body will meet the Lord in the 
air at the judgment day, for St. Paul says that " the 
Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, 
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump 
of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first. — 1st 
Thes. iv. 16. Then the kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, 
and he shall reign for ever and ever." — Rev. xi. 15. 

Councils and Synods have been the means of doing 
much harm to the Christian Church. They have 
raised up among ministers feelings of pride and 
passion, making them wish for high-sounding names 
and high positions, which has taken from them much 
of that respect which the office requires, and given 
the laity a power which they never should have had 
in God's house. 



ON SYNODS. 



It gives me pain, indeed, to see 
Synods making useless laws ; 

They seem to meet to disagree, 
Quibbling about little flaws. 

Are not the rules God Moses gave, 
And which Christ alone did teach, 

Enough both priests and all to save ? 
Hear and heed them I beseech. 

Christ told us other laws were vain, 

All traditions He forbid ; 
But them he said we must maintain 

And then walk as Moses did. 

Mankind lives but to break these laws 

Generations come and go, 
Feeding Death's ever open jaws — 

Satan walking to and fro. 



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These Canons that our Synods make 

Do not check him in the least ; 
He smiles as each new law is cast ; 

On men's doctrines he does feast. 

God should be a Bishop's only adviser, and from him 
he will receive all that is necessary to advance him and 
his flock in the paths of holiness, for Christ has said 
"Lo, I am with you always." Let Bishops, Priests and 
Deacons meet together at times for the breaking of 
bread with prayer and praise, and their hearts will be- 
come more and more fitted for the reign of Christ. It is 
possible that the seventh thousand year of the world 
may be the Sabbath of the Lord, the rest for the 
righteous before they are caught up in the clouds to be 
ever with the Lord, for though God sees us and knows 
us, each and all, we will need some time to prepare us 
to worship God in his heavenly temple. The Lord 
informed Moses, Ex. xix. 6, that this people should 
" Be unto him a kingdom of priests and an holy 
nation." Daniel says, " that the saints of the Most 
High shall possess the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world." This seems to 
infer that this world was intended to be the kingdom 
of the righteous, yes, and they will yet obtain 
possession of it. 

Dear Christian Princess, I have addressed you in 
this letter without the etiquette which is your due, 
because I feel that in such a spiritual work there is 
no need of ceremony. I have drawn your attention 
in this letter to the great points of contention among 
Christians ; but the key note on which all the har- 
mony depends is the three-fold essence of our great 
Creator, which is truly a mystery, but still a right 
knowledge of it is necessary to our salvation. Plato, 
who lived 360 years before the Christian era, taught 
his disciples that there were three persons in the 
Godhead, the Supreme Good, the mind and the soul. 



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I have no doubt that the early Christians, who saw 
Christ's divinity in his actions, had no contentions 
on this subject, but were all united in its views, 
for this was the principal feature that distinguished 
them from the Jews of that time. The Greek Church, 
whose link is not yet broken, appears to have pre- 
served this doctrine in its purest state, the Three all 
equal and co-eternal. Moses tells us we are made 
after God's own image, and we are quite conscious of 
having a body, mind, and soul, or spirit, for we feel 
within us the power of thought, and also a sort of 
electric communion with the Great Being who directs 
all our ways. You will see that I have, in the other 
parts of the book, tried to make this, and all the 
other points on which Christians contend, as plain 
as verse can make them, and if through God's bless- 
ing you, and the German people, can be induced to 
take an interest in the work, I may hope that it will 
sow the seed of Christian unity whose first blossom 
will be the conversion of the Jewish people to the 
acknowledgment of Christ as the Messiah, who then 
will return as King of kings and Lord of lords ; 
when they will once more enjoy that sweet inter- 
course with Jehovah which it was the privilege of 
the Fathers to entertain. " And the Lord will create 
upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon 
her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day, and the 
shining of a naming fire by night, for upon all the 
glory shall be a defence, and there shall be a Taber- 
nacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat and 
for a place of refuge." That you may be one of those 
of whom St. John writes as follows is the sincere wish 
of the writer of this letter. 



Seven promises our Lord has made 

To those who overcome, 
And ev'ry word that He has said 

Most surely will be done. 

The tree that from man's sight was hid, 

When he first disobey'd, 
Will in our gardens grow amid 

The fruit that man betray'd. 

The second death no pow'r shall have 

On these His favor'd ones, 
Their bodies glorified shall live, 

And wear the crown they've won. 

With hidden manna God will feed, 

A white stone will obtain, 
This stone, his passport, none shall read, 

But him who it does name. 

Nations shall be ruled by him, 

Who, faithful to the end, 
Controls and keeps himself from sin, 

When Satan does contend. 

He shall be cloth'd in raiment white, 

His sins all wash'd away, 
His new name Christ will bring to light 

And glorify his clay. 

A pillar in God's temple seen, 

No more to be displac'd, 
Three glorious names will on Him gleam, 

When sin is all effac'd. 

A throne is for such saints prepar'd 
With Christ on earth to reign, 

A palace free from pain or care, 
Then love all hearts will chain. 



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OUR FIRST PARENTS. 

Adam and Eve a lesson teach, 
To which attention I beseech ; 
Reflect mankind, this happy pair 
Were placed in Eden free of care. 

The earth all drest in beauteous green 
Blooming fruits around are seen ; 
To work and keep, to taste and eat, 
To be of living things the chief. 

One little thing his God forbid — 
The reason was from Adam hid — 
God gave him all that he did need, 
And yet he stole the little seed. 

Week after week man steals the rest 
God has chosen man's faith to test ; 
Sun, moon and stars their God obey 
Move on and on from day to day. 

But man spurns all his Maker's love, 
And welcomes not the Heavenly Dove. 
What more could man or woman want 
Than God to tie the marriage knot ? 

Adam and Eve did not this prize, 

But thought to be like God's more wise ; 

They tasted of the hidden fruit, 

Which made them blind and deaf and mute. 

If Eve had trusted in her God, 
And bid the serpent fear nis rod, 
Made Adam noble, wise and great, 
How happy then the marriage state. 

God's glory all around to cheer, 
What need would they have had to fear, 
Their bodies ne'er have turned to dust 
Nor out of Paradise been thrust. 



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Thunder and lightning never heard, 
But angels singing like the birds, 
Clouds ne'er have floated o'er the sky 
Nor tears bedew'd man's lovely eye. 

The earth would never then have quak'd, 
Nor fire beneath have made her shake, 
Man's body never known a pain, 
Nor ever hid from G-od with shame. 

Our infant days without a tear, 
Nor ever cradled in a bier, 
Childhood's gay hopes, and happy song 
Have cheer'd us all our lives along. 

Our weekly rest and daily toil 
Have girded man with virtue's coil, 
He selfish then would not have been 
Every Eve have been a queen. 

Each to the other would have brought 
Holy love and heavenly thought, 
God's glory been their chief delight 
And with him walked by day and night. 

Our spirits, daily fed with grace, 
Would ne'er have sought another place, 
No souls to Satan have been bound 
To follow him for ever round. 

But all our bodies, spirits, souls 
Must pray the angel with live coals 
Our lips to touch, our mouths to cleanse, 
Ere Jesus to this earth descends. 

Now women, maidens see how Eve 
Herself and Adam did deceive ! 
'Tis time her children should awake 
Some new and great endeavors make. 



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To banish death from this our land 
For we are now but bags of sand j 
Time wearing all and each away, 
Our life is but a little day. 

United all in one strong band, 
Evil to crush on every hand ; 
Never to flirt, deceive nor lie, 
Then Death will take his wings and fly. 

A little band I'll surely find 
Who to God's rules themselves will bind, 
Without regard to church and state, 
Or thinking what's to be their fate ; 

Will trust to God in each event, 

And do each duty as its sent, 

Each in the home where God has placed, 

No matter how those duties taste ; 

The Sabbath in his temple spend 
To pray him every blessing send. 
The Tree of Life God then will give 
And we eternally will live. 

Two Spirits now our bodies hold, 
For to evil we have been sold ; 
But Christ has bought us for his own, 
Wash'd in his blood we shall be known. 

When this kingdom Christ comes to claim 
Satan himself to bind and chain, 
Man will not then good people shun, — 
They will his kings and priests become. 

Hasten Oh Lord ! this blessed time, 

Send down some great some wondrous sign, 

To cause thy people to unite 

And worship thee with all their might ! 

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THE SECOND EVE. 

The Blessed Virgin now behold, 
Her pictures always hung in gold, 
Some do adore, some worship, them, 
And artists make her their great gem. 

But Oh ! how was it when on earth 
Ere she to Jesus did give birth ? 
What shame and sorrow, sadness, woe, 
Was her portion here below. 

An angel had from heaven to come 
To tell her husband fear to shun ; 
The power of the Holy One 
A perfect human body won. 

No palace then was open'd wide 
Where she her lovely babe could hide, 
But in a manger he was laid — 
A stable was her only shade. 

'Tis plain she but a woman was, 
Endow'd with wisdom for the cause ; 
Eve's purest daughter good and chaste 
Of all earth's trials here did taste. 

She knew her Son was all divine, 
She saw in him two natures shine j 
All round her she bid him obey — 
Be sure you do what he does say. 

She learnt to love him and to fear 
May we like her his words revere 
She never gave us any sign, 
To make us think She was divine. 



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Eve as a Spirit God did see 
And then in fire appeared he 
Surely God could as Jesus come 
His work on earth himself have done. 



THE SABBATH EYE. 

How sweet and peaceful is the rest 

Of the Christian's Sabbath eve, 
Sweet foretaste of the holiness 

Which will us soon from sin relieve. 

Our pleasures then not mixed with pain, 

All our sorrows turn'd to joy ; 
Christians, then, in more than name, 

Our souls in virtue will employ. 

No thistles then will grow apace, 

No thorns to pierce one's very heart \ 

The earth will then begin to taste 

The sweetness plann'd in God's great chart. 

Truth then will shine in every place, 

Faith will be our guiding star ; 
God's glory glowing in each face, 

And nothing to annoy or jar. 

Beauty, then, the eye will behold, 

And in virtue all will be drest, 
Bright gems and pearls and wealth untold, 

Will be shining on each breast. 

Our eyes will never lose their sight, 
No deafness will our ears offend, 

Our hair be glossy, teeth be white 
Our youthful days will never end. 



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Then all will learn that " God is love," 
His wisdom all will then perceive, 

The patience of the Holy Dove, 

And mercy that could Christ receive. 

As an atonement for man's sin, 
The fallen angels to replace, 

That when man heav'n enters in, 
He may not like them lose his place. 

How great the God that shows such love 
To wilful, wicked, sinful men, 

Who always watches from above, 
And bids the angel take a pen. 

And each and ev'ry holy act, 

Down in the Book of Life he writes, 
And promises to read these facts, 
As soon as Satan takes his flight, 

With all those who have worship'd him, 
To the region now call'd hell, 

There they will live with him in sin, 
In torment there for ever dwell. 

No Sabbath rest for such as these, 
They will in that time be withdrawn, 

But to return when Christ shall please, 
To call them on the judgment morn. 

Come then, beware, at once prepare 
A rest is waiting for the blest, 

A Sabbath eve of virtues rare, 
With peace and love will all be drest. 



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JEWISH ALTAR. 

On the sanctuary where Jehovah dwelt 
The guardian cherubims spread their wings, 

'Mid golden flowers, trees and fruit man felt, 
He might have heard the very angels sing. 

When first with God's glory the altar shone, 
How wonderful man did not then obey, 

And seek at once for his sins to atone, 

Through the great High Priest in God's chosen way. 

But nothing so strong as man's stubborn will, 

With evil he delights to be guided, 
It pleases him best to do what is ill, 

And never yet in God has confided. 

Aaron, the priest, made an idol of gold, 
This image made Moses' anger wax hot, 

The tables of stone he dropt from his hold, 
Provok'd, his God's commands he forgot. 

To man at first God spake them from above, 
Then wrote them with his finger on the stone, 

But, ever good, call'd Moses, and in love 

He bid him write those words with him alone. 

To keep these rules quite pure God gave some laws, 
A schoolmaster, to draw us near to Christ 

When man these rules does practise, then the jaws 
Of death will close in this our paradise. 

Christ kept these laws from childhood to the grave ; 

He led a life obedient and kind ; 
No longer let the devil make us slaves, 

And with his sins our souls and bodies bind. 



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To make us his in misery and woe, 
To cheat us of our heritage and right, 

To make us serve him here, and then below, 
He hides from us God's glories pure and bright. 

O ! let us then at once destroy his chains, 
With patience wear the cross our father sends ; 

With wisdom and with love it was ordained, 
To fit us all for joys that have no end. 

For ear hath never heard nor eye hath seen, 
The joy for those that taste the Tree of Life, 

That city which St. John just had a gleam, 
This kingdom where God's glory is the light. 



A POEM 



OK" THE THBEE-FOLD ESSENCE 
OF GOD 




A The Ark. C The Candlestick. Vt The Shekinah. 
N The Altar of Incense. T The Tabernacle. 



THE CREATOR. 

The Mighty One and Great I AM, 
The whole universe can span ; 
He moves upon the vasty deep — 
All the orbs in order keep. 

God did Himself to mankind give 
This great world in which we live, 
With all its creatures, fruits, and trees, 
All on earth, in sky, and seas. 

These, when God did for man provide, 
With a woman by his side, 
Were perfect, good, and blooming bright, 
A grand and glorious sight. 

With this Great Being they did walk, 
And God then to them did talk, 
They knew not what it was to fear, 
When they His commands did hear. 

His Providence still guards and guides, 
Watches over man and child, 
Though sin now hides Him from our sight, 
All do feel His power and might. 

Fresh air surrounds us night and day, 
Sun and moon, with constant ray, 
Causing the earth to reproduce 
Food and fruits for mankind's use. 

Trees with leaves of various hue, 
Drops of rain and pearly dew, 
The ebbing tide and gentle flow, 
Hoary frost, and pure white snow. 



The lightning which obeys His word, 
Peals of thunder often heard, 
The earth itself when it does quake, 
Now with terror makes men shake. 



The rapids with majestic roar, 
Proud St. Lawrence, at our shore, 
Whose waters join the river near, 
Never mix, though through we steer. 

Like good and evil in the world, 
Both these banners are unfurl'd, 
If men the former wish to be, 
They must from the latter flee. 

All that the universe contains 
Proves that God Almighty reigns, 
But above these, the link, the chain, 
To make Holy once again. 

Man, who in His own image made, 
God, his Maker, disobey'd, 
Is so merciful, just and wise, 
That we His commands should prize. 

Unseen His Spirit dwells within, 

Those who struggle against sin, 

The everlasting arm sustains, 

When Christ's blood runs through the veins. 

O ! What a great and wondrous plan, 
To restore lost fallen man, 
Love, mercy, justice, in it shine, 
Flowing down through Christ the vine. 



OUR REDEMPTION. 

When Hagar fled from Abram's house, 
To the wilderness she stray 'd, 

Then, first, was heard the angel's voice, 
He pitied her and sav'd. 

He gave her water from the well, 
And rais'd her thoughts on high, 

The trials all which her befel 
Form'd a new and sacred tie. 

When Abraham put forth his hand, 
With the knife his son to slay, 

Then next appear'd in this fair land, 
The Angel Man, Christ our stay. 

To him he spake the cheering words, 
" In thy seed shall all be bless'd," 

Behold the ram caught by his horns, 
This sacrifice was the test. 

Of thy obedience, faith and love, 
Thou fearest God, that now I know, 

His voice then told him from above, 
This faith will a good seed sow; 

Giving the treasures of the heart, 
Yielding up the dearest thing, 

Will give our enemy a start, 
And save us many a sting. 

In crosslike form on Joseph's lads, 
See Jacob's hands are stretched out, 

Imploring from the one who had 
Redeemed, blessings without count. 



When Israel their feast did hold, 

In Gilgal, near Jericho, 
Joshua did himself behold 

This Angel as he did go. 

Then on his face he quickly fell 
And worshipp'd him as his Lord ; 

Holy the place he did him tell : 
Joshua obey'd His word. 

To Manoah's wife this Angel came, 

Very terrible his mien, 
Did wondrous things, and in the flame, 

He ascended from the scene. 

When David fell in Satan's snare, 

And disobey'd his God, 
His eyes beheld this Angel there, 

Staying the Avenging Rod. 

He gently to Elijah spake, 

When he found him sad and lone ; 
The mountains rent, the earth did shake, 

But he heard that soft sweet tone. 

Thus we see in the days of old, 

The Angel of His presence 
Was the Guardian of His fold, 

And love His very essence. 

Nebuchadnezzar, in his rage, 
Cast three Jews into the flames, 

Good men, who were so very sage, 
Nothing could their honor stain. 



This King a golden image made, 
To which all were bid to bow. 

These worshipp'd God alone, they said ; 
That they loudly would avow. 

The King drew near this furnace hot, 
Unhurt these three men he sees ; 

But with them is the Son of God, 
Who from death and fire frees. 

Not a hair of their head was sing'd, 
Their clothes did not smell of fire ; 

On them was not the slightest tinge 
Of harm from this King's ire. 

Thus will it be on earth with man, 
When his ways are all upright ; 

The Angel who was Christ the Lamb, 
Will show his power and might. 

Darius issued in his realm, 
What he thought a firm decree, 

That none for thirty days should own 
Any God or King save he. 

For if they did, they should be cast 

At once into a lion's den. 
When this statute royal was pass'd, 

The King signed it with his pen. 

Daniel, who feared God alone, 
Went into his house, and prayed 

Three times a day, as he was prone, 
Before the decree was made. 



In the morn, the King rose in haste, 

And went to the den to see 
If this man, so wise and chaste, 

Could really living be. 

The mouths of the lions were shut, 
The Angel of God was there ; 

So Daniel was taken up ; 
His accusers in despair 

Were cast with their children and wives 

To the lions, who devour'd. 
No Angel came to save their lives, 

At once they felt their power. 

Thus is it now, and so will be, 
With all those who Christ disown, 

Evil from earth can never flee, 
Till this Angel Christ alone 

Can make the Jewish people bend, 

And in Him Messiah see ; 
To Him the Branch they must attend, 

And fall low upon the knee. 

Then shall all his neighbour call, 
Under the fig tree and vine ; 

Man and earth as before the Fall, 
Will labour and love entwine. 

Redemption's work, so long begun, 
Christ finished on the Cross ; 

None but God's dear and only Son 
Could have paid the price it cost 



But it is paid ; the work is done, 
And Faith is the balance sheet ; 

Christ's blood our Passover has won, 
For us grace and mercy meet. 

A king and prophets all foretold 
The events which Christ fulfilled ; 

Of David's line we him behold, 
And with lamb-like meekness filled. 



His Mother was a Virgin fair, 
In Bethlehem He was born; 

Of humble birth, with virtues rare, 
Then the star of Jacob shone. 

From Herod He was forc'd to hide, 
For this star brought jealous fears ; 

In Galilee he did reside, 
Till an angel voice he hears. 

Sorrow, trial and temptation, 
Assail'd Him each day and hour ; 

In every situation, 
He show'd almighty power. 

When oppress'd and afflicted, 
His mouth he opened not ; 

Of no sin was He convicted, 
For His vesture they cast lots. 

With the wicked He met His death, 
In the rich man's tomb was laid ; 

And is not this what Scripture saith ? 
For a ransom should be paid. 



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But now behold the victory : 
Death has no power to keep, 

We learn from Jesus' history, 
That He rose as from a sleep. 

With body changed and glorified, 
His Disciples heard Him talk ; 

In Him, man's nature deified, 
Again on this earth did walk. 

When Redemption's work was done, 
A cloud hid Him from our sight ; 

But when the time is fully come, 
Christ's glory will be light. 

O, may a blessing now descend 
On this little work of love ; 

May each Christian to it lend 
The patience of the Dove. 

Soon may Christians of all creeds 
Unite their Faith together, 

Planting the Truth without the weeds, 
Living in Love for ever. 

Then Death, the dreadful curse of ski, 
Will not wear our flesh away ; 

The power of the Serpent's sting, 
Christ, our antidote, will stay. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

Behold ! this earth all darkness reigns, 
God's spirit moves and all is light : 

It open'd out earth's richest veins, 
And show'd our Maker's power and might. 



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His word, with an electric charm, 

Pierc'd through the gloom and brought forth light 
Encircles earth and guards from harm, 

Gave birth to Adam and his wife. 



All happy in a garden, they, 

With God's spirit, good and true, 

Roam'd about from day to day, 
And nothing dark nor evil knew, 

Till Eve the Serpent's voice beguil'd, 
To taste the tree that God forbid ; 

This sin brought death to man and child, 
And the Good Spirit from us hid. 

Sin spread itself, till once again 
The earth was altogether dark ; 

For forty days a constant rain 
Drown'd all but those within the Ark. 

For ten long months and forty days, 
Light never shed on earth a beam 

Of its life-giving growth and rays, 
For water cover'd every seam. 

Then once again, for mankind's sake, 
The Spirit caus'd the earth to yield ; 

To Noah in the Ark God spake, 
And fruitful soon was man and field. 

God then a covenant made with man, 

The token of it is a bow, 
Which always does the heavens span ; 

Lights, varied colors in a row. 






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Thus when the earth baptised had been, 

A sacramental sign God gave, 
That light from earth He would not screen, 

And man from evil He would save. 

Then as a Priest the Spirit came ; 

Bread and wine, our spiritual food, 
With blessing He to Abram gave, 

And told him that he always should 

Possessor be of Heaven and earth ; 

Now beasts, and -birds, and fishes all, 
Assist Him in His joy and mirth, 

And are obedient to His call. 

In a vision Abram did 

With this Spirit again commune ; 
Five beasts and birds he now him bid 

Prepare, — holy fire did consume. 

Five sacramental types behold, 

Which it appears our God requires ; 

Encircle these within the fold, 

And earth will blaze with holy fire. 

When this good man was ninety-nine, 
To him this Spirit once more spake, 

A covenant with thee for all time, 
And to thy seed with thee I make. 

Distinct from all or any race, 

His seed their children circumcise. 

The Angel Christ, who did displace 
This token, with His blood despise. 



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Let all baptize when eight days old, 
With Abram's faith let it be done, 

His name he chang'd when he was told, 
Thus Jews may Christ like yet become. 

The Spirit once again appear'd 

To Abraham, when in his tent, 
And, when he look'd, three men stood near ; 

To these his body low he bent. 

He seems to speak alone to one, 
But food prepares for all the three ; 

Perceive he stood till they were done, 
And Sarah hears, but does not see. 

His faith is strong, but hers is weak ; 

Now comes the promise of a son ; 
She laughs, but Abram always meek, 

Trusts, and believes all will be done. 

The three move on, the Spirit stays, 

It often lingers with the pure ; 
When true and just are all our ways, 

His presence ever we'll secure. 

The Spirit then made known to him, 
Because he rul'd his household well, 

That Sodom and Gomorrah's sins, 
Sure destruction soon would tell. 

Six times he to the Lord did plead, 
" The righteous pray do not destroy/' 

But O, in Holy Writ we read, 
There were not ten without alloj* 



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Not even ten good holy men 
In those two cities could be found, 

So fire and brimstone from Heaven, then 
Burnt them and all upon the ground. 

The Lord, He says, went on His way, 
And Abraham to his own place. 

O may we all soon see the day 
When He the earth again will grace. 

Tis true we feel His presence still, 
But then we do not see His face, 

When we do all His will fulfil, 
All chang'd will be the human race. 

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 

Have the great God Almighty seen, 

But of His name, Jehovah, 
On this earth they had not a gleam. 

To Moses He did reveal 

This wonderful name with His law, 
Their covenant with Him did seal, 

Under this His new name Jah. 

The prophet Ezekiel saw, 
In vision, the Spirit of God ; 

What He spake to him was law ; 
Through thorns and briars he trod. 

The Spirit lifted him up 

Above worldly pleasures and cares; 
Drink from this spiritual cup, 

SaVd his soul from Satan's snares. 



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Jews, like the fathers of old, 

Do the great God Almighty know ; 

In Christ they do not behold, 
The one whose blood will save from woe. 

This God's Spirit soon will prove ; 

Once more God will to men return ; 
All Evil then he will remove, 

And men will every idol burn. 

His threefold essence none will doubt, 
Then all to His name, Jah, will bow, 

Mankind His praises loud will shout, 
And in one Temple all will vow. 

As Jesus' body knew no sin, 

God's Spirit did on him descend, 

And took up his abode within, 
A voice the Spirit did attend. 

When our Christ was glorified, 

On Him a cloud of light did shine, 

And the voice from Heaven cried, 
" This beloved Son is mine !" 

When He all His work had done, 

This cloud received Him out of sight ; 

But the voice said, " He will come 
Again in that bright cloud of light !" 

We should then at once prepare 
To welcome Jesus back once more ; 

If we God's own armour wear, 
God will Christ to us restore. 



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He will then this kingdom claim, 

Righteous thoughts and deeds prevail ; 

Sickness, sorrow, death and pain, 
Will not us then, as now, assail. 

Love to God and love to men 
Will in glorious beauty shine; 

Holy actions, all will then 

Improve that holy, happy time. 

None then groaning under sin, 
Will their Heavenly Father fear ; 

Washed and purified within, 

His voice mankind will long to hear. 



THE COMMANDMENTS. 

Our Father to mankind did give 
Ten commandments wise and good, 

When by these commands we live, 
The tree of life will yield her food. 

God in all hearts must reign supreme ; 

Idols there must find no place, 
No hoarded treasure seek to wean, 

Or hide us from His face. 

No likeness must engross our thoughts, 

In the earth, air, sky or sea, 
For God is jealous, and has taught 

That man to Him must bend the knee. 

God's name we must not take in vain ; 

Oaths must not our lips defile, 
And when we pray to His great name, 

Nothing must our lips beguile. 






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To ponder on God's wondrous love, 
One day in seven we must; rest, 

And raise our thoughts to things above ; 
God does thus obedience test. 



God has earthly parents given, 

All must honour and obey ; 
Homes will be a type of heaven, 

And prolonged will be our day. 

When our God and earthly parents 

Get from man what is their due, 
Then the former five great talents 

Will the other five renew. 

All malice will be put away. 

Anger, bitterness and strife, 
Will not incite a hand to slay, 

Shortening another's life. 

No selfish habits will control, 

Working out deceit and lies : 
Drinking not then, inflame the soul, 

Nor poisonous love the eyes. 

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Then, they that stole no more will steal ; 

All our labour will be sweet, 
None will envy, nor jealous feel, 

Nor any desire to cheat. 

False witnesses from earth will flee j 

Evil speaking then will cease, 
And man, just like the busy bee, 

Do his daily work in peace. 



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Each one happy in his home 
Will not covet other's things, 

But all, with one great mighty tone, 
Praise to God the Father sing. 

God's ten commands will then suffice ; 

Man's laws will not find a place, 
For we will then have done with vice, 

And all will be wise and chaste. 



A NEW PERIOD. 

City of Bethlehem, 

Christ's own House of Bread, 
From whence came the leaven 

That will raise the dead. 

Awake from thy darkness, 
Accept the true light ; 

Thy houses now cheerless, 
Will all then be bright. 

This desert shall rejoice, 
And bloom as the rose, 

For Messiah's sweet voice 
Sin's reign soon will close. 

The ransom'd will return, 
With joy on their heads, 

The redeem'd will sojourn, 
As prophets have said. 

With God's glory around, 
Thy mountains shall glow, 

When all hallowed the ground, 
A pure vine shall grow. 



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In whose branches the birds 
Shall sing with one song, 

And the fruit of Christ's words 
Be seen in the throng. 

No more shall the curse 
God's children oppress, 

Neither mourner nor hearse 
Their hearts shall distress. 

Awake, then, this New-Year, 
Arouse thee from sleep ; 

Angel voices I hear, 
Their vigils they keep. 

Hark ! the Archangel's voice 
Proclaims He is come, 

The righteous rejoice, 
A crown they have won. 

Earth's sweet Sabbath rest 
Long life will restore; 

Christ again as man's guest, 
Will reign evermore. 



AN APPEAL TO . 
THE WORLD IN GENERAL. 

The Citizens of the Dominion in Particular. 

Many Poems like these 

Are ready to print. 
The Saints will God please, 

If, after this hint, 






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They give freely their gold ; 

Such truths to display, 
God will blessings untold 

Shower down day by day. 

" The Christian's Wedding Ring/ 
The name it will bear ; 

For the Saviour our King, 
It bids earth prepare. 

It has search'd far and wide, 

Its gilding to find, 
But all lay it aside 

As too good to bind. 

" Write a novel or story, 
That will sell," they say ; 

Of our future glory, 

"Ono! that won't pay." 

For the body most men 

Their energies spend, 
But their souls now and then 

Would like them to lend 

A fair share of the wealth 

It helps to provide, 
For alas ! with great stealth, 

Its wants are supplied. 

Now, in this age of strikes, 

Before it rebels, 
Let this work see the light, 

It evil dispels. 



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God's own word is the mine 
Producing this ore ; 

With Christ's Spirit Divine 
All thus may explore. 

And produce finer gold, 
New beauties display, 

Which will never grow old, 
Nor ever decay. 



NAPOLEON'S DEATH. 

Another of the son's of men, 
Who did earth's glories taste,3 

The Emperor Napoleon, 
Death stole away in haste. 

'Midst scenes of woe, and joy, and mirth, 
His three-score years and five 

Have swiftly sped away on earth, 
No longer will he strive 

An earthly Empire here to guide, 

Or countrymen control ; 
The space that he and them divide, 

Angels alone patrol. 

The prize for which he strove — he won, 
While in his prime — and lost, 

Before his life on earth was done. 
Was it worth the fc cost ? 

Ambition, his besetting sin, 

Caus'd him to wage a war ; 
Amidst its roar and deaf ning din, 

He was the one lost star. 



These worldly crowns at best are nought, 

They yield no lasting joy ; 
When the battle of life is fought, 

Vain is the glittering toy. 

But virtue's crown will never fade, 

Nor will it dim with age, 
For each one such a crown is made, 

Strive for it and be sage. 



THE FOUR PERIODS OF THE WORLD. 

Four Periods the world has seen, 
God's wonders each has shown ; 

First mighty waters tried to wean 
Man from his gods of stone. 

The Patriarchal then begun, 
Some good men then did shine ; 

With might great Pharoah was undone, 
And Israel mov'd in line. 

The Levitical then burst forth, 

Its rays from Sinai came ; 
Gold images of greater worth 

Man worshipped all the same. 

This period clos'dwith awful death 

Of Christ, the Son of God ; 
Man worships still his gods of earth, 

And bends not to the rod. 

This great High Priest from death did rise, 

He taught men holy ways ; 
His body our great sacrifice, 

The dawn of brighter days. 






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This Period draws near its close, 

Evil has had its day ; 
God soon with goodness will descend, 

Reanimate the clay. 

Our spirits then will daily grow 
More lovely, more divine ; 

New graces then the soul will show, 
And round the body twine. 



THE DYING YEAR OF 1872. 

The dying of another year 
Brings round some memories dear, 
Of many joys that now are dead, 
Happy days which all have fled. 

But still hope welcomes to our hearts, 
New year with its open chart ; 
And if new lines we try to trace, 
Peace and joy will fill each face. 

The year from us does quickly hide ; 
One by one the minutes slide. 
Has it left golden threads behind ? 
All our future lives to bind. 

Or will its deeds, the coming year, 
Cause us many a groan and tear ? 
Have we been honest, just and true, 
Given God what is His due ? 

Have we smiled sweetly in our homes, 
Mounted high on virtue's throne, 
Been kind to all within our reach, 
Acted well what Christ did teach ? 



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These are the steps the Saints have trod, 
Gems like these their feet have shod ; 
May we, untarnished, like them, see 
The Reign of Christ in seventy-three. 

Wishing you all a Happy New Year, 
Light from God our hearts to cheer, 
Love to cement the Christian Ring, 
Altogether we will sing, 
Alleluia. 



THE 



SERPENT 



SATAN 



FALSE PROPHET 



THE TEINITY OF EYIL. 



THE EVIL SPIRIT. 

The Evil Spirit is the theme 
I now before you set in verse ; 

I wish to draw aside the screen, 

And all his ways and works rehearse. 

A Trinity of Evil see, 
Now surrounding land and sea ; 
St. John three unclean spirits saw 
Coming from the dragon's jaw. 

Like frogs, he says, they leapt about, 
Croaking all their evil out ; 
Working miracles, man to cleave, 
Just as he did first with Eve. 

What a deceiver he has been, 

This Prince of the pow'r of the air ; 

His only object, aim and scheme, 
That man should all his ruin share. 

Like light'ning he from Heaven fell, 
Knowing he never could return ; 

But would be closely shut in Hell, 
For endless ages to sojourn. 

While man, if he obey'd God's laws, 
He saw would fill his vacant place, 

And revel in all those great joys, 

He lost when he did Heav'n disgrace. 



This must have fill'd his wicked heart 
With envy, jealousy and hate, 

And led him on to play the part 

Which lur'd our parents to their fate. 

Then, as a serpent, he appears 

To a gentle trusting woman, 
Filling her mind with doubts and fears, 

As he leads her through the garden. 

" If that fine beauteous fruit you eat, 
11 God will not surely make you die ; 

" As gods you will then take your seat, 
" And good from evil with your eye 

" Well opened, you will discern." 
Instead of which, how many sin 

On, day by day, with no concern, 
For he has made all dark within ; 

And death, the dreadful curse of man 
And beast, for near six thousand years 

The whole of this our earth doth span ; 
While Satan walks around and leers, 

Tempting each creature with his fruit, 
Which all too eagerly do taste ; 

His poison made each one to suit, 
And all his energies to waste. 

Job tells us of a certain day, 

When many of our God's own sons, 

Mov'd by a holy, heavenly ray, 
Together to the Lord did come. 

Among them Satan finds his way, 
And to the Lord himself did talk. 

" My servant Job, the Lord did say, 
11 In true and upright paths doth walk." 



But Satan cunningly replies : 

" An hedge about him thou hast made ; 
" The reason why he me defies, 

Thy blessings have him firmly staid." 

Pow'r to Satan the Lord then gave, 
His servant Job to try and tempt ; 

Strong faith from Satan's wiles did save— 
His love to God they did cement. 

As Joshua the High Priest stands 
Before the Angel of the Lord, 

Satan resists at his right hand, 
But disappears at Angel's word. 

The filthy garments he had worn 
Were then from Joshua taken ; 

His head a mitre did adorn, 
When Satan had him forsaken. 

David by Satan was provok'd 

To number up Israel's hosts, 
By which God's anger he invok'd 

And sev'nty thousand men he lost. 

Thus David, Joshua and Job, 

Have sin and Satan seen and known; 

All Adam's children on this globe, 
Have been by Satan made to groan. 

Nothing but the Saviour's prayer 
Sav'd Simon Peter from his lair ; 
Three times he made him tell a lie, 
For which he afterwards did sigh. 

Jude says, the Devil did dispute, 
And the Archangel did refute ; 
Moses, for whom he did contend, 
This Angel Michael did defend. 






But Christ has bruis'd the Serpent's head, 
And curb'd his great and wondrous power ; 

When he returns to wake the dead, 
His Angel chains him in that hour 



LUKE XIII. 32. 

When Christ did on this earth appear, 
The Devil first as man was seen ; 

To tempt us he is always near — 
Various is his shape and mien. 

He dafd our Lord himself to tempt ; 

But foil'd, he plung'd with rage in men ; 
And women were not then exempt — 

From Magdalene Christ cast out seven. 

See how those devils knew our Lord, 
And trembled when they saw His face; 

They flew when He but spake the word — 
The swine into the lake did chase. 

The Devil still does men possess, 
When evil passions do enthral ; 

His idols seem to have a zest 
And pow'r to make men hear his call. 

Slyly he flatters and deceives, 

Allures each one with some device ; 

Inflates with pride or love of ease — 
With golden rays he does entice. 

Men blindly nibble at his fruit, 

Although its poison well they know 

His snares are laid each one to suit, 
Causing his evil seed to grow. 






To the twelve Christ gave the power 
To check the growth of sin in man ; 

From His throne He now does shower 
Grace on the means of his great plan, 

Which fills his sacraments with fire ; 

Gives strength to bruise the tempter's arts ; 
Preserves from Satan's rage and ire, 

Rendering harmless all his darts. 

Christ alone can extract the root 
And take the sting of death away ; 

When man does heed his Maker's suit, 
Christ will proclaim eternal day. 



THE TEMPTER'S ARTS. 

How grievous is the love of gain, 
When it does men's souls enchain ; 
Cheating and grasping all they can, 
Then the daily hourly plan. 

To gain a little bit of land, 
Many will soul and body strand ; 
Pass restless days and sleepless nights, 
Scheming plots for other's rights. 

They will cause you both pain and toil, 
If their arts you try to foil .; 
Against them you cannot succeed, 
Unless God does intercede. 

One with another will combine, 
To work out their dark design ; 
In a great circle they will join 
What they covet to purloin. 



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To be thought rich in gold and land, 
They will rob you underhand ; 
Thus many a noble life is lost, 
And with evil passions tost. 

Self, the sole object of each thought, 
When their labour comes to nougjit : 
The things of sight their value lose, 
Too late virtue's paths to choose. 

Despair drives on to darker deeds — 
Fruit of all their evil seeds — 
Worries the mind, wears flesh away, 
Clothes with sorrow and decay. 



2nd Part. 



The love of gold absorbs all else, 
Men seem to live to gather pence ; 
Never content, their constant aim, 
Is gold and silver heaps to gain. 

Some make it in an honest way, 
With steady aim from day to day ; 
They gather coin, build mansions great, 
That they may live in grand estate. 

Some with sharp tricks and cheating ways, 
Their friends and foes alike betray ; 
Grow very rich, and very proud, 
And drive their horses with the crowd. 

Some save and scrape, and live by stealth, 
That men may bow to their great wealth ; 
These ends attained, they pass away, 
Are cut down as the new mown hay. 



Does it seem wisdom thus to live, 
And all our energies to give ; 
To gather what we cannot keep, 
And sow where we so little reap ? 

Gold is a useful thing, 'tis true ; 
All have a right to get their due ; 
But if for it our minds we strain, 
Then slyly Satan twines his chain ; 

Malting us selfish, mean and vain, 
The glory of this world our aim ; 
The heart grows cold, the eye grows dim, 
All from this great and grievous sin. 

Even the monkey has more sense, 
He prefers nuts to any pence ; 
Darwin's theory must be wrong, 
For man's improving is his song. 



SABBATH BREAKING. 

Am I robbing God or not, 
If I use the Sabbath day 

To work out my worldly plots, 
Or to mingle with the gay ? 

Six days work, one day of rest, 
Is our Maker's own command ; 

Man seems to think it's a jest, 
And heeds not this wise demand. 

Those we love, we try to please, 
Gladly we devote to them 

All our thoughts, our time, our ease, 
Giving all to sinful men ; 



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While we steal our Maker's hours, 

Just to take a little sail ; 
To stroll in beauty's bowers, 

Or write letters for the mail. 

Some read novels all the day, 
Visit all their friends around ; 

Gather Idols made of clay, 
With a false and hollow sound. 

Softly down these paths men tread, 
On the way to greater crimes ; 

Prisoners by Satan led, 
Willing captives to his wiles. 

Always craving something new, 
Peace of mind they never know ; 

Seldom any good pursue, 

And God's blessings from them throw. 



THE SIN OF DRINKING. 

Serpents of every kind are seen, 
Winding through the forest glade ; 

In search of prey their eyes do gleam, 
Finding victims in its shade. 

The Serpent lures with magic eye — 
Courage flies beneath his gaze ; 

The victim tries in vain to fly, 
Fascinated, there it stays. 

Poison and death from him have sprung, 
And in ev*ry mouth is found ; 

Saliva to our lips has clung — 
Death our bodies does surround. 



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With lightning dash the creature springs, 

And at once does it enfold ; 
Coils round and round ; and to it clings, 

Till its jaws its body hold. 

When Eve did with the Serpent talk, 

Subtle he was, it is said ; 
But then he on his feet did walk ; 

Now, all creatures do him dread. 

Our very blessings made a curse 

That which should have cheered the heart, 
Causing constant craving thirst — 

Sowing vice of eVry sort. 

Drink is the greatest curse of sin, 

Few the habit can control ; 
It makes all black and dark within — 

Ruins body, mind and soul. 

It is many a household's foe, 
Wearing flesh and health away ; 

Dragging souls down to endless woe ; 
Hiding from them Christ our stay. 

Just like a little pebble thrown 

In water, quiet and calm, 
It ruffles and disturbs this stone, 

All the circle that it can. 

One seldom hears of any crime, 

Where drink has not play'd its part ; 

It seems to be the evil mine, 
With veins pointing to the heart. 

But Jesus, who was all Divine, 

New life offers to those veins ; 
Drink in faith His love in wine, 

And thus shake off Satan's chains. 






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FLIRTING. 



Flirting is a fearful thing, 

Leads to much sorrow and shame ; 
Hearts it does with sorrow wring, 

It should some attention claim. 

Little children now we see, 

Whose hearts should be pure indeed, 
Looking all around with glee, 

For a little of this weed, 

Which, when planted, grows apace, 
Spoils that sweet and lovely bloom, 

Which should shine on each young face, 
Many virtues does entomb. 

Then when these young people wed, 
Flirting ways they cannot change ; 

They continue, without dread, 
And each other's hearts estrange. 

Then the little daily strife 

Wears till it creates a sore ; 
Tarnishing the joys of life, 

Gnawing out love's very core. 

There can be no sadder sight 

Than a home with hearts grown cold ; 
Without love, its beacon light, 

Serpents poison and enfold. 

Just as one did Mother Eve, 

With a little gentle sting ; 
Each the other does deceive, 

And to utter ruin bring. 



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THE SIN OF LYING. 

The devil's children must tell lies, 
He always has a liar been 
To speak the truth, they never try 
He always from it tries to wean. 

First disobey then tell a lie, 
If you my wages wish to gain, 
God surely will not make you die 
He must have whisper'd unto Cain. 

It does seem strange when Abel died, 
That fear of man should fill Cain's mind 
That with a lie he thought to hide 
A deed of such a dreadful kind. 

From the great God whose truth he saw 
In his dead brother's form of clay, 
Why was he not o'erwhelm'd with awe 
Instead of fear that man would slay. 

The devil held him in his grasp, 
And gently from his God withdrew, 
He slowly fasten'd on the mask 
That hid from him the wise and true. 

This is the way he marches round, 
Filling the earth with lying seed, 
And trying to maintain his ground 
By urging men to wicked deeds. 



CHURCH MUSIC. 

Is it true that notes of praise 
In our churches discords raise ; 
Evil does in there intrude, 
Even there he tries to brood 






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Why should we to Satan yield ? 
Let us drive him from the field ; 
Sift and see though he defies 
And poor human nature tries. 

Some no organ will allow, — 
To this prejudice they bow ; 
Some will not stand up to sing, — 
Never think of such a thing. 

Young boy singers clad in white 
Are to some a great delight. 
Ladies some call to their aid, 
But then they must now be paid. 

Some make music the one thing, 
People flock to hear them sing ; 
Finish up with some new lay, 
Just to make the people stay. 

Organs are of ancient date, 
For in man's primeval state 
Harp and organ we are told, 
Jubal could himself take hold. 

And in Chronicles we read 
When King David saw the need 
For the Ark to pitch a tent, 
He for Priests and Levites sent. 

That they might prepare to sing, 
Praises to our God and King ; 
They did Chenaniah choose, 
Because he among the Jews 

Was most skilful in the song, 
And could best instruct the throng ; 
David dress'd in linen white. 
Singers, Levites all in sight. 



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Priests did all their trumpets blow, 
And the Word doth further show 
They play'd cornets, cymbals, harps- 
Shouting forth with all their hearts ; 

And in Nehemiah's day 
Priests and Levites met to pray, 
With singers, instruments and all, 
Who upon the Lord did call. 

Thus it seems that Jewish times 
Brought forth more united chimes ; 
When to Christ Jews bend the knee, 
Christians will their errors see. 



THE TEMPTER'S FRIENDS. 

Come, friends, the Summer is coming on fast, 
The Winter is now very nearly past ; 
Let us pitch our tents, and arrange our ways, 
Where there are no Holy Sabbath days. 

Lachine, they say, is a very nice place, 
Then to it we all must most surely haste ; 
The rich and the poor are gathering there, 
So it is plain we have no time to spare. 

Our company must be very select, 
Satan, our guide, we'll agree to elect ; 
The seventh day in his amusements spend, 
He will give us fun, and some money lend. 

We will moor our boats on Saturday night, 
And start in the morning, just at day-light ; 
It would be just as well to get away 
When people are looking the other way ; 



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For when all the Church bells begin to ring ; 
And these good Christians begin to sing, 
We'll feel our bodies are stealing the rest, 
Our souls would enjoy with relish and zest. 

But now 'tis too late our ways to change, 
Our habits are form'd, our plans arranged ; 
Our spiritual eyes are firmly sealed, 
Our future Satan has well concealed. 



THE LAST BATTLE. 



Lucifer, who from Heaven fell 



And whose domain is now calPd Hell, 
Would gladly wander over earth 
And gather angels for his hearth. 

Lucifer knows his time is short, 
Thus he is luring every sort ; 
Some with gold, and some with wine, 
Some he draws with a steady line. 

Lucifer, when he makes men sin, 
Whispers, " it is but a little thing ; 
" Taste and try it, it is really sweet ;" 
He soon persuades, and mankind eat 

Lucifer is cunning and sly ; 
He never works, but he must lie ; 
His greatest card, a pile of gold, 
Draws foolish souls into his hold. 

Lucifer's door is near at hand ; 
Goodness will drive him from this land ; 
Then death, our enemy, will flee, 
And man will purely happy be. 



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THE KINGDOM. 

The question is on earth who reigns, 
Who is it holds man's heart in chains, 
Who tempts us with his golden rays, 
And tries to make us passion's slaves. 

Look at the young and lovely babe, 
Perfect by his Creator made. 
How soon will anger spoil that face, 
And rob it of its sweetest grace. 

Before it speaks it disobeys, 
And seems to crave for evil ways. 
The tongue soon learns to tell a lie, 
For which 'tis hard to make it sigh. 

If Christ had not put on a curb, 
Nothing would evil still disturb, 
His good and noble early life 
Has this kingdom fill'd with strife. 

He told us that he brought a sword 
That would us through sins' river ford, 
And with the sword, Faith's golden chain 
This dreadful battle to maintain. 

As long as man this conflict fights 
Death will put him out of sight, 
The hour of temptations come, 
The voice will soon proclaim 'tis done. 

The time of peace is drawing near, 
Then we will nothing have to fear, 
The former things will pass away, 
And we will Christ all homage pay. 



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THE VICTORY. 

"Jvil now sits in glory great, 
Spreading round his tempting bait ; 
Luring us with the things of sight, 
To the realms of endless night. 

Two spirits now for us contend, 
And our wills' behests attend ; 
One will with holiness array, 
The other leads our steps astray. 

The good must trust, and watch and wait ; 
Their reward anticipate ; 
For while this world is rul'd by sin, 
They their glory cannot win. 

Christ comes again with a reprieve, 
When the Jews in him believe ; 
Then as the King of David's line, 
He will open out their mine. 

Then earth will be Heaven below, 
Time no longer will us mow ; 
Many purified then will be, 
And made white that all shall see. 

All hallowed then our Father's name, 
Christ will this his Kingdom claim ; 
His will on earth will then be done 
As in Heaven it is sung. 

He will give us our daily Bread, 
And the Blood which he has shed 
Will furnish food for soul and mind 
Of the best and rarest kind. 



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Our trespasses God will forgive, 
And will give us strength to live, 
As Christ did walk so good and kind, 
To each other's faults quite blind. 

Temptations then will not assail ; 
For our sight will pierce the vail 
Of that dark desolated land, 
Where evil dwells on ev'ry hand. 

The wicked there will all have fled, 
Captive then by Satan led ; 
Banished for ever from the sight 
Of God's presence pure and bright. 

Satan having claimed his own, 
And withdrawn them to his home ; 
In glory on the mercy seat, 
God will his good subjects meet. 

With might and power then will shine 
The wisdom of our God Divine ; 
Mankind will then his name adore, 
Pray and praise him evermore. 



DEATH. 



Death now places his icy hand 
On ev'ry creature in the land, 
As people walk along the street, 
Hearse or mourner they're sure to meet. 

Why is it so ? My spirit asks, 
The young, the old must wear his mark, 
Must drive along the dusty street, 
And furnish to the worms his meat. 



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Nor cloister'd cell nor stately hall, 
But what must answer to his call 
The rich, the poor, the fool, the wise 
Go to the grave yard, there he lies. 

What is the reason, angel hear 
Why must I part with all that's dear. 
Why must I leave this lovely earth, 
And make an end of all my mirth. 

The angel whisper'd in my ear, 
Man's idols make death tarry here, 
Unite with faith and Christian love, 
And soon will come the Holy Dove. 

Who when he comes will clear the way, 
Illumine all things with his ray, 
Restore to us the life we lost, 
And make us like, the Heav'nly Host 






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To His Most Illustrious Majesty », 

THE GRAND SEIGNEUR AND SULTAN 
Of the Ottoman Empire : 

In the year 1870, I offered you my congratulations on the 
successful manner which you accomplished the opening of the 
Canal, which gives direct communication from the Mediterranean 
to the Red Sea ; and the visit of the Empress of France, at that 
time in all her glory, seems to have been the commencement of 
direct intercourse between Turks and Christians, preparing the 
way for the return of the Jews to Jerusalem — which event appears 
to me to be very near at hand. 

Since then, the Empress has been bereft of her husband and 
driven from the country where she reigned supreme — teaching us 
that we live in a time of wonderful changes. Indeed, the signs of 
the times are such as to make all men prepare for the Second 
coming of the Lord; and, if He is indeed coming with ten thousand 
of His Saints, as prophesied by Enoch, the seventh from Adam, all 
should use their talents to bring the world to one united Faith 
and Practice. You and I agree in the fact that all the world is 
descended from Noah, and the first good man who is mentioned 
after the Flood is Abraham, from whom both you and I descend, — 
for he had two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, both circumcised after the 
law, (the Jews are the descendants of Isaac, the Mahomedans of 
Ishmael). Christ was descended in a direct line from Isaac, and 
we are baptised and by that means made his children, by adoption. 

Now Abraham believed that a Sacrifice of Blood was needed, 
and for that faith the Lord himself appeared to him twice and 
promised him that, " In thee shall all the families of the earth be 
blessed, (Genesis xii., 3,) " All the nations of the earth shall be 
blessed in him" (Genesis xviii., 18,) " and in thy seed shall all the 



nations of the earth be blessed, (Genesis xxii., 18.) If Christ, 
then, in whom we believe, was the Lord who appeared to our 
Father Abraham three different times, He must have been the 
child of promise, of whom Isaac was the Type. 

Our natural birth does not make us Christians. We may be 
born of Christian parents, in a Christian land ; but, unless baptised 
of water and of the Spirit, we are neither of the nation or family 
of Christ, nor is the seed of the Holy Spirit sown in our hearts. 
Christ, then, in whom we believe, and whose children we are made 
by baptism, was circumcised and fulfilled the law in every particu- 
lar. Without the Divine nature of God he could not have done 
this, for human nature, since the fall, has been unable to do any- 
thing perfectly. Christ suffered death, in order that every creature 
that breathed the breath of life might be set free from the bondage 
of sin, and so fitted to appear before God, the Maker of the 
world. 

Thus, we see that Abraham believed in Christ before He 
(Christ) came into the world ; we have the testimony of living 
witnesses who saw Him, and the daily fulfilment of Prophecies 
which he could not have understood ; for as God divided the Red 
Sea on former days to allow the Jews to pass through on dry land, 
so now he has allowed you to make a passage through the Red 
Sea to the Holy Land, the place in which the Prophet Joel, hund- 
reds of years ago, prophesied the descent of the Holy Spirit, and 
where Micah says, (chap, iv., 6, 7,) all the nations of the earth 
will come to a knowledge of the truth. 

" The Rabbins say, that when the lot was taken, a scarlet 
fillet was bound on the Scape Goat's head, and after the High 
Priest had confessed his and the people's sins over it, the fillet 
became white ; this miracle ceased, according to them, forty years 
before the destruction of Jerusalem, that is, exactly when Jesus 
Christ was crucified." 

Now, it may be that our blood was white before the Evil 
Spirit's poison entered our veins, and this miracle may have been 
intended to show that God will purify and make white again the 
blood of those who spiritually partake of those Sacraments that 
God has provided for the soul's nourishment We know that Christ 



shed his blood drop by drop to make atonement for the sins of the 
whole world, not for a few Christians or a few Jews, — not for one 
sect or one church, — but for the sins of the whole world, to satisfy 
Divine Justice and Mercy \ and when mankind begins to realize 
this fact, the sole object of their lives will be to become pure, Holy 
and Christ-like, and to make this earth a Heaven below. 

But the Soul, like the body, must use the Blood to make it 
pure, in the same way as the body requires to use water to make 
it clean. Nothing but the use of water can keep the body in health ; 
nothing but the use of Christ's Blood can cleanse and purify the 
soul. 

There are at present in the world numberless sects, but only 
four religions : Jews, Mahomedans, and Christians, who worship 
the one holy and true God, and Heathens who worship Idols of 
wood or stone or false Gods ; all four of which seem represented 
by Jewish offerings, which were first the offering of the herds of the 
flock, a shadow of the Jewish Faith which, until Christ came, 
always slew a lamb for their Passover. The offering of the first 
fruits, which was Cain's offering, rejected of God, typifying the 
Mahomedan. The Peace offering, which was a type of Christ 
himself ; for St. Paul, in Ephesians ii., 14, says : " Christ is our 
Peace, he has broken down the wall of sin that hid us from 
God. And the offering of the sin of ignorance, which repre- 
sents the Heathen, who surely worship, in ignorance, Idols of 
wood and stone. If this is the case, how truly did St. Paul say in 
Hebrews x., 1 : "The Law having a shadow of good things to 
come and not the very image of those things, can never, with those 
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually, make the 
comers thereunto perfect." 

Before addressing you, I have devoted myself to the study of 
the Prophet Mahomet and the English version of the Koran. The 
Prophet appears before me with a tall and commanding figure, 
strong in mind, earnest in purpose, and sincere in what he pro- 
fessed and wrote, with great reverence for the Almighty God, but 
wanting in the knowledge of God's threefold Essence as mani- 
fested in the person of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Al- 
though I find in the Koran many proofs which have helped to 



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strengthen my faith in Christianity, a few of which I will quote : 
Take page 13 of 2nd Book, " The Angel Gabriel is said to have 
caused the Koran to descend on his heart ;" now it is the Holy : 
Spirit of God alone that puts every good thought in our hearts ; 
the page 36 of 3rd Book says : " O Lord, thou shalt gather man- 
kind together unto a day of resurrection : there is no doubt of it, 
for God will not be contrary to his promise." Now, in Revelations 
chap, i., 7, it says : " Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every 
eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him, and all 
kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him." 

Then page 40, 41 speaks of "God," "the Angel," and the 
"Word," the three distinct offices of Father, Son and Spirit 
Then chapter 19, page 251, calls Jesus the Son of Mary, "the 
Word of Truth," proving plainly Christ's divine and human nature. 
It is a great mystery and hard to understand ; but the Devil is a 
mystery, and his temptations quite beyond our comprehension, and 
often so veiled that we scarcely see them till we have felt their 
sting ; one thing is certain, it is his chief object to keep all 
mankind from knowing God as a God of infinite Love, so great 
that He condescended to live on earth, with man, and to die for 
man, so that God's justice might be satisfied. If God, who made 
the world and all mankind, breathed into man a spirit which shall 
never die, could He not breathe into Christ's human body a Spirit 
which should never sin. Then that body, not having been 
polluted by sin, would be an Atonement for all the world, provided 
they had faith strong enough to believe that Divine wrath was 
satisfied ; but we must have a living Faith, not a trust in Fate or 
Islem. 

The beautiful plates, which appeared in the London papers, 
of the splendid ceremony which attended the opening of the 
Canal, on that memorable 17th November, 1870, afforded their 
readers much pleasure ; but the sublime idea of having the work 
Hessed by all religions was the dawn of a new period — and all 
those vessels, with their various flags, sailing in one direction, 
under one guide, a foreshadowing of the time when all will sail 
under the Banner of the Cross, with one King, even Christ. 



Then those canopies and gorgeous arrangements will again draw 
together the Jew with the Crescent, beneath the Cross — around 
which will twine that living vine, whose fruit will strengthen and 
renew all that eat and drink, in faith, of that spiritual food, which> 
though now lost to our natural sight, through sin, is still within the 
reach of the faithful. 

The writer hopes that these remarks will induce the Turks to 
search the Scriptures, and see who was the true Prophet, Christ 
or Mahomet. The latter, in his life, had many more followers than 
Christ ; but after the lapse of so many years, which has been the 
greatest benefit to mankind — Mahommadism, which was estab- 
lished at the point of the sword, or the Christian one, which will 
only shine forth in all its beauty when our swords are firmly fas- 
tened in their sheaths ? 6 That you, when Christ returns to reign for 
a thousand years, may have your name written in the Book of 
Life, is the sincere wish of the writer, who is a Christian Lady, of 
the first city of the first Dominion in the world. — (Micah iv., 8.) 



THE CHRISTIAN'S FAITH. 

O ! Turkish maidens fair and bright, 
Bring all your Crescents to the light ; 
Try Mahomet's laws by Christ's commands, 
And see with whom the glory stands. 

The Koran's page in this our day, 
Transmits a secondary ray ; 
Its gems all borrow'd seem to be, 
From God's word sent to you and me. 

When Mahomet wrote that wondrous work, 
Which chang'd the Heathen to a Turk, 
The word of God was then fulfill'd, 
And Abram's seed with truth instill'd. 

But now God's spirit comes with pow^r ; 
Make ready friends for that great hour, 
When pain and sorrow, sickness, woe, 
And all man's troubles here below 

Will from this earth be swept away — 
God will restore eternal day — 
And diamonds, crowns and precious stones, 
Will shine on those who fill the thrones. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S LOVE. 

Jewish maidens, far and near, 
Come to God's messenger and hear 
The wondrous tale the word reveals, 
Of He who all our sorrow heals. 

'Tis true, He died by Jewish bands ; 
But Christians too have pierc'd his hands j 
Drawn blood and water from his side ; 
Inflicted pangs of human pride. 



The sacrifice that He has made ; 
The thorns that on his brow were laid ; 
Will draw sin's poison from our veins, 
And cleanse our souls from all sin's stains. 

O ! let me lift the veil that hides 
The Saviour's virtues from your eyes. 
O ! let me teach you that you must, 
Like Him, be perfect, pure and just. 

At once begin your lamps to trim, 
With holy fire and grace within ; 
Come quickly to the marriage feast 
Of Jewish, Turkish, Christian Priest. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S CROSS. 

For nearly nineteen hundred years 
Christians have been shedding tears ; 
Struggling, striving, meekly bearing 
Scorns and slights ; yes, ever wearing 

Satan's grievous heavy crosses, 
And trying to maintain the loss 
Of the One who came to teach them 
How to live like Christian men. 

For forty long and weary days, 
The Saviour, with evil ways 
The Tempter tried to overcome, 
But there he found himself undone. 

He calmly yielded up his life, 
Pierc'd to the heart with all the strife ; 
He hasten'd to the spirit land — 
Such love is hard to understand. 



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Again He trod this sinful ground, 
And shed His glory all around, 
For forty days, obedient, kind, 
All virtue's graces left behind. 

He rose above us out of sight, 
But still he cheers our souls with light ; 
The spark that lit the Heav'nly flame 
Will forever our souls sustain. 

Soon He will come in regal state, 
With an array of angels great ; 
No crosses then for us to bear — 
Our crowns will meet us in the air. 

Prepare then, all the bridegrooms near ; 
Ten thousand saints will see and hear ; 
The righteous then will hardly stand — • 
The wicked fall on every hand. 



On hearing a sermon on the 63rd Isaiah, 3rd verse: 

" I HAVE TRODDEN THE WINEPRESS ALONE." 

Christ has trodden alone 
The wine press, to atone ; 
He bore the burden of sin, 
And drew from it the sting. 

His soul such sorrow knew, 
That from its lips it drew ; 
" This cup, Father, pass away, 
"Thy will to do, I pray." 

In drops he sweat his blood 
To stop the fatal flood ; 
The agony was great, 
Our race to reinstate. 



Come then to this pure vine, 
And drink his blood in wine ; 
In bread His body take, 
And sin will us forsake. 

Our faith will then defeat 
The tempter's arts we meet ; 
The mercy seat will shine 
Again with light divine. 

The Jews, in days of yore, 
The Temple purg'd with gore ; 
Then birds and beasts supplied 
The blood that justified. 

Two goats the High Priest brought ; 
And as he had been taught, 
He lots for them did cast, 
That one he might make fast, 

A sin offering to make, 
That God would not forsake ; 
The other he cast away, 
For Jewish sins to pay. 

A scarlet fillet bound 
The scape goat's head around ; 
To white its color chang'd, 
Till virtue Christ maintain'd 

Now even Rabbins say, 
This miracle that they 
So long beheld did cease, 
When death did Christ release. 

If once the blood was white, 
And men both pure and bright, 
When sin we learn to shun, 
Again, as then, will run 






The pure blood in our veins ; 
Christ then will take the reins, 
And fill with joy our hearts, 
For Satan then departs. 

When Faith and Works embrace, 
And all our actions grace ; 
Then look ! behold the sign 
Of the Millenium, Time. 

All Idols forsaken, 

New life will awaken ; 

Both the body and soul 

Christ will cleanse and make whole ; 

For His woes paid the cost, 
And the joys Adam lost 
To this earth will return, 
When God's truth we all learn. 



THE WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC, 

On Mars Island, ist April, 1873. 

A ship well built as man can boast, 
Has just founder'd on the coast 
Of a rocky Island, — Mars by name, 
Sad the nature of its fame. 

Ten days had hardly pass'd away 
Since with hearts both light and gay, 
Almost a thousand souls embark'd 
In this ship, this treach'rous ark. 

When all on board are wrap't in sleep, 
But the watch, who vigils keep ; 
Just three o'clock, " All's well," they shout, 
" Hark ! breakers ahead I look out 1 " 






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The vessel strikes against a rock, 
And receives a fatal shock ; 
The boilers burst, she over heels, 
To the raging water yields. 

Which draws her down beneath the wave, 
Hundreds find a watery grave ; 
Both men and women, girls and boys, 
Hush'd are all their fears and joys. 

These left their friends no parting word, 
One loud shriek alone was heard ; 
No Priest could make them then confess, 
No religion them redress. 

Alone their spirits all did soar, 
To that unknown distant shore ; 
Some to return with glory great, 
Some to find the truth too late. 

Some were saVd by means of rope, 
When almost bereft of hope ; 
One by Ancients Priestly hand 
Was in safety brought to land. 

This teaches us not to despair, 
But to lift our hearts in prayer ; 
To use the means God has ordain'd, 
And then all will be regained. 



THE ST. LAWRENCE, 

As she appeared on the igth April, 1873. 

River St. Lawrence in a shroud, 

Is sleeping peacefully 
Around her banks behold a crowd, 

Awaiting anxiously. 



To see her burst those icy bands, 

They very fearfully 
Cast their eyes on all low lands 

While praying fervently. 

That she will not their ground o'erflow 

But gently, peacefully, 
They wish her to awake and show 

Quiet and gratefully. 

That for her blessed time of rest, 
Which they bore patiently, 

She will assume her very best, 
Retiring modestly. 

One might suggest a melting mood, 

So that she carefully 
Should change her death like attitude, 

And come out joyously. 

With dress of beaut'ous wavy blue, 

Then all will lovingly 
Pay her the homage that is due, 

By sailing joyously. 

And then with hearts both light and gay, 

All will most thankfully 
Enjoy the summer holiday, 

Hailing her cheerfully. 

All working with labour and skill 

Quite industriously, 
Tracing out the Creator's will, 

Yes, harmoniously. 



A PRAYER. 

Thy work is waiting, Father dear, 
For means to send it forth, 
O, send me some kind friend to cheer ; 
One that will see its worth. 

Some say, poor thing, how very sad, 
To see such waste of time, 
Such writing soon will make you mad; 
Don't write another line. 



Do help the work I gently plead 
Its precepts all are true ; 
I have not any time to read, 
So 'tis in vain to sue. 

Do be advised another says, 
A cent you'll never make 
For good books no one ever pays, 
So no more trouble take. 

Reform the world, another cries, 
All very fine to talk, 
Man now has grown so very wise, 
In sin he likes to walk. 

Still hope is lurking in my breast, 
Some saint, I think, I'll find, 
To say, O what a welcome guest, 
I'll store it in my mind. 

Its precepts all are good and true, 
Great and grand its aims, 
Reject them not because they're new, 
And teach one self to tame. 



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Subdue one self, how great the thought, 
Keep each passion down, 
How Christ-like, just what Jesus taught, 
No longer he will frown. 

Once more I urge its claims, pray help 
To spread its praise around, 
I always said, and always felt 
God's work in it resounds. 

For no one could alone have trac'd 
A book of such a kind, 
Its pages with such beauties grac'd, 
As you in it will find. 

And though each person may have read 
Its contents oft before, 
Some soul may in it find the thread, 
One temple to restore. 



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TEUTH. 

A stripling in the search of truth 
To foreign lands did wend his way, 

In musty books this charming youth 
Thought he could find truth's holy ray 

Of course no trace of truth he found, 
So thought that in his head would place 

Ancient learning most profound, 
Sweeten'd with pleasure to his taste. 

The folly pleas'd his body well, 

The learning fill'd his mind with pride ; 
His spirit well he could not tell, 

Why he its food did always hide. 

Years pass'd, and as he older grew, 

Some change he thought it well to see ; 

A little gold would make things new, 
So daily work it then must be. 

His idol gold at once became, 
All search for truth he set aside ; 

His heart he set on earthly gain, 
And Satan soon became his guide. 

Some years in piling gold he pass'd, 
But there all trace of truth he lost ; 

Now heaps of gold he has amass 'd, 
But Oh ! to him how great the cost. 

When he reach'd the palace of truth, 
No passport had he in his mind, 

The angel asked him why in youth 
He had not gathered of this kind ? 



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He said that truth was once his aim, 
But all is false and hollow here ; 

The angel did to him exclaim, 

Did not Christ teach you how to steer. 

Had you your bible daily sought 
For grace and strength to overcome 

You would have learnt and others taught 
How this glittering gem is won. 

The man then paus'd quite sad, to think 
He never there had thought to look, 

For joys to fill that missing link, 
The way of truth in G-od's own book. 



A PEAYEE. 

teach me, teach me, Lord, I pray, 
How I can thy work array, 
That it may draw the Jew to thee, 
At thy cross to bend the knee. 

To make them feel thou hast been here, 
All our hearts with love to cheer ; 
To teach them that thy pow'r so great 
Chose to come in low estate. 

The evil one so well ensnares, 
Hearts so fills with earthly cares, 
That works like mine they do not prize, 
For it so the spirit tries. 

But, if God's truth it does contain, 
He my efforts will sustain, 
And, in spite of all man's pride, 
Will disperse it far and wide. 



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Pray, Esau's sons, come chaff the wheat I 
Draw Christ from his heavenly seat ! 
Search with me this precious mine* 
And you will with glory shine. 

Come humbly to the throne of grace, 
Worship him, who fills all space, 
With faith and love, a small return 
Which Christ left his throne to earn. 

Pride is the Evil One's delight — 
For it hides Grod from our sight ; 
Like children, try to learn and trust 
That G-od's plan is wise and just. 

The veil must rise from off your eyes, 
Before Jesus you can prize ; 
And earth can never heaven become 
Till your homage Christ has won. 

Death draws us, now, with noiseless tread ; 
Generations he has led 
Through his great valley, dark and lone, 
Breaking up man's earthly home. 

Gloom and darkness, sorrow and woe, 
Are found where his scythe doeh mow ; 
He persecutes the human race — 
Each in turn he does embrace. 

The aged parent, child, and slave, 
All descend into the grave ; 
It matters little what your creed, 
Each in turn that way proceed. 

Then let me urge, yes, beg, entreat, 
That my work you soon will greet 
With a generous, welcome look, 
Searching well through all the book. 









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Then making trial of its truth, 
By imparting it to youth ; 
So that the glory it portrays 
May be brought within our gaze. 

SECOND PART. 

Our lives are all a mystery, 
From our childhood to old age ; 

Each one would make a history, 
And fill full many a page. 

A warfare rages all through life, 
Man's heart, the great prize, to gain, 

'Tis evil causes all the strife, 
And with sin our souls does chain. 

God sends good angels us to guide, 

Holy seed within to plant ; 
The Devil watches, makes us slide, 

And with evil does enchant. 

King David was both pure and good, 
When God's house he thought to build ; 

He tasted of the tempter's food, 
And with sin his soul he fill'd. 

When Nathan, who the Lord did send 

His servant to reprimand, 
Convinced him he must amend, 

And obey his God's command. 

He shewed him how life's journey all 
With great blessings God had crown'd 

Whenever he on him had call'd 
His enemies scatter'd round. 



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And if that had been too little, 
More for him he would have done, 

If he had kept each tittle 

Of the law, like Christ His son. 

Jesus, in his warfare, conquer'd, 
He the tempter did dethrone ; 

His kingdom he has enter'd, 
And he soon will reign alone. 

When the Church in new apparel, 
For her spouse is really drest, 

God will wean man from his idol, 
And give earth her heav'nly rest. 

King David's Son on earth will reign, 
On Mount Zion's holy hill j 

Then sin God will with iron chain, 
And his love in our hearts instill. 

Hasten then, his throne is waiting, 
The elect are all prepar'd, 

delay not your repenting, 
Or your souls will be ensnar'd. 



THE FIRST TEMPLE. 

The first Eve brought much sorrow to man, 
Disarrang'd th' Almighty's plan ; 
She did what she should not have done, — 
The great web of evil spun. 

She shut the windows of heaven, 
She fill'd our hearts with leaven, 
She put a vail over our eyes 
"Which our body petrifies. 



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When sin and sinners did abound, 
God with water hid the ground ; 
God opened his windows in wrath, 
And cover'd the earth with froth. 

One man, call'd Noah, God did spare 
As he did an ark prepare, 
And seven others, for his sake, 
He did with him in it take. 

'Mid heaven and earth, this floating ark — 
This one little, lonely bark 
Held all, in love, that God could save 
From a dreadful, watery grave. 

For sin had so mankind disgrac'd, 
That God them almost effac'd. 
Noah, alone, his God obey'd, 
So his family were sav'd. 

Through jeers and taunts this ark was made j 
Ponder well and be afraid ! 
One man, one ark, the race preserv'd, 
When from truth the rest had swerv'd. 

That one did faithfully fulfil 

In all things his Maker's will ; 

The length, the breadth, the height, he made 

By the rule God for him laid. 

One door, one window did it grace, 
And three stories found a place ; 
Eooms in compartments did divide — 
God did all its movements guide. 

A little spark of light does gleam 
From this little tiny thing — 
Fit emblem of the temple, where 
God hears and answers prayer. 



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Had Noah kept the ark well clos'd, 
Death had never interpos'd, 
For while within it they did rest, 
Death did never them molest. 

But, when he to the earth return'd, 
The first sacrifice he burned 
Show'd symptoms of an evil heart, 
Which death's shadows did impart. 

The fathers, each, and all, did raise 
Altars, the Lord God to praise ; 
Like Abel they did sacrifice 
Blood, whose incense reached the skies, 

But still, Death did these fathers take 
Across his mysterious lake ; 
And ever since he has prevail'd, 
And his woes on man entail'd. 

When God to Moses had made known 
How he should for sin atone, 
He built an altar 'neath a hill, 
Blood upon and 'round did spill ; 

Twelve pillars there did represent 
The twelve tribes, who, penitent, 
To God their offerings did bring, 
Which from thankful hearts did spring. 

For they did all, with one accord, 
Promise to obey the Lord ; 
The people did God's presence feel, 
He his glory did reveal. 

A tabernacle, then, we see, 

Where these tribes did bend the knee, — 

A covering which God desir'd, 

And his holy things requir'd. 



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Ten curtains did to it pertain, 
Which were parted just in twain, 
With five on each side, so entwin'd 
That they were, it seems, design 'd 

To cover all the means of grace, 
Center'd in this hallow'd place ; 
Whose door God's glory did defend 
When their worship did ascend. 

Whenever man to God does pray 
Satan in his cunning way 
Inserts some little secret sin, 
That some homage he may win. 

Soon Israel's sons their pride betray- 
For an earthly king they pray ; 
To their request he did accede 
After he with them did plead. 

God as their king they did reject, 
Saul he for them did select ; 
Samuel did with oil anoint, 
After God did him appoint. 

But Saul did fail God's word to keep, 
Sin did all his senses steep, 
And God another king did name, 
Bidding Samuel him proclaim. 

David, the second Jewish King, 
Did conceive a wondrous thing ; 
To goodness he his heart inclin'd, 
The first temple he design'd. 

And for it he did well prepare, 
Silver, gold, and jewels, rare ; 
But, it from building did refrain, 
For he had so many slain. 



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The temple, that God's glory fill'd, 
Solomon, his son, did build ; 
With beauteous wood and fine-hewn stone, 
This glorious temple shone. 

In every country, now, we find 
Temples of all sorts and kind ; 
But none can, like the first one, show 
The fire which in it did glow, 

Nor does God's glory in them shine 
As it did in former time ; 
Some reason there must surely be 
Why these things we cannot see. 

We now no sacrifice do need, 
Christ for all the good does plead ; 
But oh ! let all together pray 
For a beam of that lost ray. 

But, alas ! the Devil has made 
The temple his grand arcade ; 
He has made men believe, with pride, 
There in priests they should confide. 

Memorials of the human kind 
In it, ev'rywhere, we find ; 
God's glory these must much efface, 
This is not their proper place. 

Apostles, prophets, martyrs, saints 
With great care the artist paints, 
The house of God to beautify, 
But they really testify 

How sadly we do magnify 

Acts by which we glorify 

The great and mighty King of kings, 

From whom ev'ry creature springs. 



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Thus in each church he finds a place 
Where he does himself encase ; 
This place he must at once resign 
When we all our prayers entwine. 

United, we will him defy, 
And the Church will purify ; 
Jesus will then his people guide, 
And his Church become his bride. 

Malachi says, that when we pay 
God his tithes, in his own way, 
Heav'ns windows will open wide, 
God will bless instead of chide. 



LOT'S WIFE. 

Remember, I pray, 
That terrible day, 
When Sodom, with flame, 
Lit up all the plain. 

Then, think of Lot's wife, 
How she lost her life ; 
She knew, well, the way, 
But wish'd for delay. 

One lingering look, — 
Death her overtook ; 
She God disobey' d — 
Her soul thus betray'd. 

Her frame then became 
A pillar of shame ; 
Banished for ever — 
One stroke did sever 



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From friend and from foe, 
To regions of woe ; 
Take warning by this ! 
For moments of bliss 

Do not sacrifice 
Your heavenly prize — 
With Zoar in sight 
Had she been upright, 

Her name with renown 
Would be handed down ; 
Fly, then, to Zoar ! 
There is but one door. 

If we put away pride, 
The Spirit will guide, 
And give us the grace 
Sin lost to the race. 









THE TABERNACLE WITH THE COURT AND CAMP. 



A The Tabernacle. B The Laver. C The Altar of burnt offering. 
D The Court. E The Cloud of Glory. 







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Dear Jewish Friends, — 

Your believe that man was first tempted by 
a woman under the influence of the serpent, who of 
course, was the Evil Spirit. We Christians believe 
that our Christ was the Lamb slain from the foun- 
dations of the world. The Lamb, typified in Isaac, 
who died that we might live, who took upon him our 
nature and was born of a woman, conceived of the 
Holy Spirit. Would that God might enable me, a 
mere woman as I am, and one who has been led 
through the wilderness of this world by the special 
providence of God for many years, through, I may 
say, as strange trials and troubles as have ever fallen 
to the lot of a human being, to lift from your eyes 
the veil which hides from you a Saviour's love. My 
object in writing is not to open a controversy, but to 
induce you to search the scriptures and see if Christ 
has not fulfilled those prophecies which has, since 
the days of your father Abram, led you to look for a 
perfect human sacrifice for sin, so that Moses, in 
whom you trust, shall not accuse you hereafter, for 
Christ said " Had ye believed Moses ye would have 
believed me. — John v. 46. As soon as your people 
kneel to Christ in faith the reign of truth will dawn 
upon the earth and Christ's spiritual reign begins. 
As the Messiah Christ will then return, either per- 
sonally or spiritually, to be our king, and reign over 
you in Jerusalem, the Holy City. 

My subject, then, is — 

" Christ, the Son op God." 

Text — John 8, 14. " Though I bear record of my- 
self yet my] record is true ; for I know whence I 
came and whither I go." 

A Unitarian tract before me, by W. G. Eliot, D.D., 
(written with the object of proving that Christ was 

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without the divine nature of God,) takes this same 
text ; but in how different a light do I see it. None 
but God could know whence He came or whither He 
went. None of the inspired men of the Old Testa- 
ment knew it, nor does any one living know it. God, 
in His mercy, has sent us His Bible as a rule of life, 
that we might first learn to know His will, and then 
practise it. All efforts to keep the law perfectly in 
the best living creature must fall far short of what 
God requires. Therefore, Christ appeared himself 
to your fathers in the form of a man, and then con- 
descended to be born of a pure virgin, fulfilling, in 
every particular, the Prophecy of Isaiah, (Isaiah vii. 
14) for God's justice required a sacrifice ; so the 
second person in the blessed Trinity came in the person 
of Jesus Christ to wash away our sins in His blood 
to purify and prepare our bodies for the indwelling of 
the Holy Spirit, and " by one offering he hath perfect- 
ed forever them that are sanctified," (Hebrews x. 14.) 
Though the Devil had the great power to ruin the beau . 
tiful creature that God had made, still the power that 
made had the power to restore. The redemption of the 
world is a work of wonderful love and mercy, so 
complete that man can neither add anything to it nor 
take anything from it. God now offers us greater 
happiness and beauty than we lost, — giving us, how- 
ever, the free will to choose whether we will have 
for our Father God, who loves us, or the Devil, who 
hates us. As He said to your fathers He now says 
to us — " Choose ye this day whom ye will serve." 

The Devil hates us because he once had all those 
joys as his own which Christ has now prepared for 
us; he having lost them, does not choose 
that we shall ever enjoy them. Christianity, thank 
God, to those who have at times felt the power of the 
Holy Trinity on the soul, is so far beyond all human 
philosophy that none but those who have felt its 



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power, feel that there are no words in which to 
express it, but Christ's own words to Nicodemus — 
" Ye must be born of water and of the Spirit," — 
which must have been intended to teach the use of 
baptism instead of circumcision, in this, obeying the 
law, which obedience will lead you to believe the 
Gospel, and see in Christ the Messiah for whom you 
still look. 

To sit at the feet of Jesus, to learn His will, as the 
Unitarians do, from His human nature instead of His 
divine, reminds me of a child going to a lesson of 
any sort with the hope of learning that lesson by the 
teacher merely reading it to him, — if it was music, 
playing it for him, or a language, speaking it to him, 
or drawing, sketching it for him. No faith to believe 
that the teacher is a being, composed of body, mind, 
and soul or spirit, — endowed with the power of 
imparting that knowledge and of fixing it as it were 
on the mind or soul for ever. 

Now, this is a mystery. Can you explain it ? No. 
Do you believe it ? Yes. God is a spirit. God made 
man, (we are told by Moses in Genesis,) after His own 
image. If, then, you believe that you are made of 
three parts — body, mind, and soul, why cannot you 
believe that God made us by His power, justified us by 
His love, and in mercy sanctified us by His Holy 
Spirit, so that by the action of all the Three in One 
who made us, God's justice might be appeased ? 

The world is beginning to grow old j time is hast- 
ening us on to the end of all things. Would it not 
be wise, instead of trying to find out whether the 
world was built in six days or as many thousand 
years — why God has not informed us more on this 
subject and more on that — why this was not put in 
the Old Testament and that left out of the New ? I 
repeat it, would it not be wiser to try to become more 
humble, loving Christians, striving to follow out the 



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God-like graces of the Saviour, — looking at him as 
he is, — the beautiful picture of what Adam was 
before the fall, — as also, of God's revealed will to man, 
which he gave to Moses on the Mount on two tables 
of stone ? If Christ were not God, why did He 
come at all, and why as a child ? We knew our duty 
from the law, and we have no more power now to 
keep it perfectly than before Christ came. God's 
justice required a perfect sacrifice for sin, to do away 
with your many sacrifices and to reconcile us to him- 
self, — to purify, to wash us from our sins. His 
coming as a man would have been quite useless, for 
we know that a person may be very moral without 
being at all religious. Christ does not say you must 
keep the law to the letter or you will never see the 
Lord; but it is said "without holiness no man shall 
see the Lord." Our hearts tell us that of ourselves 
we are not holy, then there was need of a sacrifice 
and that a holy one. The angels are not perfect, or 
Satan would not have fallen ; hence the reason why 
Christ came and suffered, and ere he returns to reign 
God's Holy Spirit will make us holy. That God's 
ways are mysterious none will deny; but yet a 
humble, trusting Christian finds no difficulty in 
believing what has been revealed, and looks forward 
in hope to the time when our spiritual sight will be 
restored, and all will be made plain. The plan of 
redemption to him is simple. It soothes all his 
sorrows and drives away all his cares. The feeling 
that his soul reposes in a Saviour's arms, and that in 
His holiness he shall appear before his God, is to him 
greater riches than all the glory and honor of the 
world. 

Pride, the cause of the Devil's own fall, is his prin- 
cipal weapon, which he uses to draw 6ouls from God. 
There are so many varieties of pride, or, rather, 
Satan tempts us by it in so many different ways, that 



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we seldom know when it influences our actions. It 
is pride that tempts a Unitarian to call himself a 
Christian, when it would become him better to take 
some Jewish name, or, if he could, to join the Jewish 
Church. It would, I think be more consistent, for at 
baptism the Christian has three privileges conferred 
upon him : — 1st. He who was naturally estranged 
from Christ is made a member of Him, — that is, a 
member of that mystical body whereof Christ is the 
head. (Ephesians ii. 12.) 2nd. He who was natu- 
rally a child of wrath is now made a son of God by 
adoption through Christ, the Son of God by nature. 
(Galatians iv. 5.) 3rd. Being a son of God, he who 
was naturally a child of perdition is now made an 
heir of God and joint heir with Christ to a kingdom 
of glory. Now, if a Unitarian does not believe this, 
how can he be a Christian ? We do not take our 
family name because we are obedient children. We 
must be of the same nature, born into the same 
family. Then, how can we take the name of Christ 
without having been baptized, which alone distin- 
guishes us from Jews, Turks, and Infidels ? Our 
keeping the law does not make us Jews ; nor can a 
Unitarian become a Christian by leading a life more 
like Christ than Christians do. Nothing can make a 
man what he is not made by the form prescribed ; 
and I do not think that anything but being born a Jew 
can make one a Jew, nor can any one be a Christian 
unless baptized of water and the Spirit. Anything 
else is a delusion of the Evil One to entrap their 
souls. Nothing but divine power could have fulfilled, 
as Christ did, all the ancient prophecies which are 
contained in the Old Testament concerning the 
Messiah. It required divine power to perform the 
miracles which he did. Then, again, the holiness of 
the doctrine which he prescribed, banishing idolatry, 
superstition and vice out of the world, and teaching 



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instead the knowledge and worship of the true God, 
the fulfilling of the law, and the practice of all 
manner of virtues. He showed, also, His divine 
power by His resurrection, for He remained on earth 
forty days, eating and drinking with His disciples, 
and appearing suddenly unto them when they neither 
knew " whence He came or whither He went; " His 
wonderful ascension into Heaven, by which He 
finished the fulfilment of the prophecies regarding 
himself which He delivered while on earth, of which 
His disciples, once Jews themselves, were the living 
witnesses. 

Add to this the testimony of Josephus, who says — 
(Book 18, chapter 3) — " that Jesus was a wise man, 
if it be lawful to call him a man, for He did wonder- 
ful works : He taught men to receive the truth with 
pleasure ; He drew over to Him many of the Jews. 
He was Christ, and Pilate condemned Him to the 
cross on the 3rd April. Those that loved Him did 
not forsake Him,* for He appeared to them alive again 
the third day, April 5th, as the divine prophets had 
foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful 
things concerning Him." 

You, yourselves, are a text to us. It is not an in 
spired man that you expect. It is God himself; and 
because Christ did not come with pomp and great 
glory, you cannot believe Him to be the Messiah. He 
often appeared to your fathers. They did not doubt 
that it was He, and their faith was much stronger 
than ours, for they believed in what had not then 
happened. Now your people find it hard to believe 
what has come to pass. 

The fearful destruction of your temple, city, and 

* He really should have said, " those he loved he did not forsake, 
for he appeared to them alive again, the third day after his cruci- 
fixtion, and now having finished his work of Redemption, he must 
and will return to finish his work of Glorification which he has 
begun, and when finished, man will be a perfectly Holy being, 
living like Christ did while on earth." 



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commonwealth by the Komans, which Christ foretold 
you forty years before it took place (Luke xxi. 20) ; 
your being scattered about upon the earth and remain- 
ing as you are to this day, as prophecied by Hosea in 
his 3rd chapter, without a king, without a high priest, 
and without a temple, without a sacrifice, — for you 
have had none since Christ came, — are living monu- 
ments and witnesses to the truth of these prophecies. 
Then see, for three hundred years after Christ's as- 
cension, the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles power to 
preach the Gospel to all nations in their own language, 
and to work miracles. These days are passed, but 
Christ still assists the humble Christian in his efforts 
to be good ; and no matter how often he fails, if he 
only turns to Him in true penitence and prayer, 
<c He is able to save them to the uttermost also 
that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to 
make intercession for them." (Hebrews vii. 25). But 
if we will not hear Moses and the prophets, neither 
will we be persuaded though one rose from the dead. 
(Luke xvi.) 

Some Unitarians ask the question, Are we disciples 
of Christ or only first among equals ? The Gospel 
teaches us to believe in Jesus, (the word Jesus means 
a Saviour.) Why ? Because He is the Saviour of 
mankind, (Acts iv, 12,) aud He is called Anointed 
because called to three ofiices, that of Prophet, Priest, 
and King. As a Prophet, Christ instructs His Church 
outwardly by His "Word, (Luke 4, 18,) and inwardly 
by His Spirit (John xiv. 26. As a Priest, He recon- 
ciles by His death on the cross, (1 Timothy 25,) as 
also by His continual intercession to God for us ; 
and as a King, He governs and protects His 
people and Church (Ephesians ii. 22,) but has not 
yet claimed his victory over death. To Christ, 
also, may be applied the attributes which belong 
to God, — 1st. The attribute of uuchangableness, 
for in John 8, 58, he says, " Before Abraham was, I 



am." 2nd. The attribute of Omnipresence, for He 
told His disciples that He would be with them to the 
end of the world. His sovereignty I have already 
proved. 

If Christ had not been divine, He could not have 
told the woman of Samaria what she had done. Re- 
member how the disciples felt their hearts burning 
within them when He talked to them after His resur- 
rection. Faith would be of no value if the mystery 
were not very great. We cannot comprehend God 
now, but we can easily believe that He could take our 
nature on Him if He chose. All nations worship some 
sort of a god. To worship the true G-od, then, does 
not require much faith. The beauty of faith can 
only be shown in the belief of God's wonderful love 
and mercy in loving us so much who love him so 
little, and in suffering for us so much agony. "What 
man could have borne the agony of all the sins of the 
world, when the remorse of one sin will sometimes drive 
a person to despair ? Then He contended, as it were, 
with the Evil One and overcame. What man can do 
this without having his soul stained with sin ? The Evil 
One seems, as it were, to throw a veil for a time over 
our eyes ; in fact, to make us believe that we are doing 
right when we are doing wrong — that we are saints 
when we are -greater sinners than those who have, 
perhaps, less pretensions ; and it is only by constant 
prayer and the help of God's Holy Spirit that one is 
able to struggle and tear oneself from his grasp. All 
the inspired men in the Old Testament have fallen 
under the power of Satan at one time or another. 
Moses lost his temper several times ; he even slew an 
Egyptian. Abraham's faith failed him before Abime- 
leck. Isaac failed the same way. Jacob told a lie 
and deceived his poor old father. David and Solomon 
both sinned exceedingly before the Lord. So that 
the fact of Christ being inspired would not have been 
sufficient to have enabled Him to contend against the 



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Evil One as He did, Christ showed dependence on God 
in His human nature, which would not have been 
complete without it. Christ came to set before us a 
perfect example of Adam before the Fall, as also a 
loving picture of God's will to man once given on 
stone. He kept the law perfectly. Close your 
eyes and look at Christ in this way — the perfection 
of all that is lovely and beautiful can give but a very 
faint idea of His beauty. If the Christian combines 
the faith of the Jew and the Unitarian, we prove 
Christ to be divine. The Jews, by their strong belief 
that the Messiah must be God himself, with the veil 
still over their eyes, fulfilling Christ's own prophecy 
concerning them, and of which He warned them 
(Matthew xiii. 13) ; then the Unitarian, by proving 
that Christ fulfilled prophecies and obeyed the law to 
the letter, proves Him to be the Messiah for whom 
the Jews still look ; for, in offering Himself upon the 
cross in the person of His Son, He proves himself to 
be the Saviour of the world. These two faiths, then, 
prove the doctrine of the Trinity. Indeed, it seems 
plain that if Christ was not God no man will be saved ; 
for, without the divine nature was complete in Christ, 
no man will appear before God. 

As soon as the Jew learns to know that the Messiah 
has come, I believe he will put to shame the Chris- 
tians of the present day, whose faith is certainly not 
that of Abraham, nor their deeds those which St. Paul 
taught. How plainly both Jew and Gentile, in their 
unbelief, follow up Adam's great sin of pride ; both 
are too proud to believe that God took upon Him the 
nature of man, whom he made after His own image, 
as if all things are not possible with God. If we 
could once feel His love — a love so great that, when 
enduring the most intense agony, He cried out, 
" Father, forgive them, for they know not what they 
do," — so great that He ever liveth to make interces- 



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sion for us, (Hebrews vii. 25) and so immense that 
through Him, St. John says, " we have become the 
sons of God," and yet we are not changed in appear- 
ance but in his first epistle, he tells us "that we shall 
see Him as He is when we are made like Him." 

" I am the way, the truth and the life." It seems 
to me that Christ has made the way clear. The Holy 
Spirit plants the truth in our hearts, and God is the 
life. Christ was circumcised to fulfil the law, and He 
was baptized to set us an example of the sacrament 
that He wished to introduce, which was to take the 
place of circumcision in the Christian Church. " Go 
ye and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, 
the Son, and the Holy Ghost." The Father sends the 
Son, and He imparts the Holy Spirit. All three per- 
sons here hold a personal office, and are all three made 
equal. The baptism is to comprise all three, and then 
follows the promise — " Lo, I am with you always, 
even unto the end of the world." Yes, He is with us 
to guide us and keep us from the Evil Spirit, whose 
constant employment is to hinder us from doing good 
and to induce us to do evil (Galatians v. 17; Romans 
vii. 23). Some Gentiles say there is no Devil or Evil 
Spirit; then how do they account for their evil 
thoughts and actions ? If there is one, then ask your 
self what would be most likely his first object. To 
keep us from knowing God. He will try as he did 
with Adam to persuade us that some one of his attri- 
butes are superior to the other — either His mercy will 
save us without the appointed means, or His love will 
show itself in a different way from what He has told 
us himself, or His justice did not require that He 
should come himself, as He has done. These are the 
wicked suggestions which he deludes us with. Are 
they not the same as the one with which he tempted 
Adam ? " Ye shall not surely die ;" but has that pre- 
vented us from dying? Although Adam, like his 



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children, was foolish enough to believe him, still, has 
it altered the sentence ? Does not every day, hour, 
minute, and second testify to the truth of God and the 
success of the Devil's works ? 

Take an example of any good work, — we will 
say the building of a church. Look at the way Solo- 
mon's temple was built. Look at the offerings that 
King Solomon brought to God before he commenced 
to built it. Then see how the people answered to Solo- 
mon's call in 1st Kings 5-9. Hiram says : — " I have 
considered the things which thou sentest to me for, 
and I will do all thy desire ; my servants shall bring 
down the timber from Lebanon to the sea." And all 
he asks in return is food for his men. See the gold 
that the Queen of Sheba brought. Now, look at the 
way we build churches to the Lord. First, the Devil 
tries to make the congregation who wish to build it 
quarrel among themselves, by this means to prevent 
it being built at all. Then, when the time has come 
that God chooses the church shall bebuilt, he does all he 
can by his devices so to influence them and their work 
as to make it a temple for God in name only, for one 
man will give the land for the purpose of improving his 
property ; the money will be given by the people to 
the praise of their own names ; the minister will get 
it built to show what great power he has, and how he 
rules his people ; and then there will be constant con- 
tention among themselves. Is this, I ask, working 
for God's glory or the praise of His holy name ? 

But the day is at hand. The Jews in Jerusalem 
will build again the temple of the Lord, — a temple, I 
believe, which has had none so beautiful since the one 
that King Solomon built, — and where both prayer 
and praise will rise to the Triune God from the hearts 
and souls of the worshippers. God grant that I may 
live to see it, for this temple will begin to be built as 
soon as the Jews can see that the Messiah has come 



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indeed, and that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, 
who came to earth in His human nature and offered 
himself on the cross for our salvation. 

In Deuteronomy xxi. 23, every one that is hanged 
on a tree is cursed. In Galatians iii. 13, it says, 
" Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law." 
The angel of the Lord, who spoke twice to Abraham 
out of Heaven, was no other than Christ, who told 
the Jews himself, in John viii. 56, that " your Father 
Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and 
was glad." Job, in xxxi. 31, said, " Oh, that we had 
of His flesh." We cannot be satisfied; we have it 
and will not take it. The Jews in Christ's day asked 
(John vi. 52), How can this man give us His flesh to 
eat ? and Christ said, " my flesh is meat indeed, and 
my blood is drink indeed." Although the death of 
many saints and righteous persons have testified to 
the truth of these words, how many cannot be satis- 
fied because they will not believe. Christians are 
apt to think that because the Jewish nation actually 
put our Lord to death that they are very wicked ; 
but St. Paul says, in Hebrews, " for it is impossible 
for those who were once enlightened and have tasted 
of the Heavenly gift, and were made partakers of 
the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good "Word of 
God and the powers of the world to come, — if they 
shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance 
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God 
afresh, and put him to an open shame." 

Jews and Gentiles both saw Him go into Heaven, 
where He now sits at the right hand of God, there to 
intercede and to accept from us our smallest and 
most imperfect services done for His sake. All will 
again see Him when He comes to judge the quick 
and the dead; but before that time the following 
prophecies together with numberless others must be 
fulfilled. " For though Thy people Israel be as the 



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sands of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return." 
Isaiah x. 22. 

" Be still and know that I am God : I will be ex- 
alted among the Heathen, I will be exalted in the 
earth."— Psalm 46, 10. 

" In his days shall the righteous flourish : and 
abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth." — 
■72. Ps. vii. 

" It shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in 
the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above 
the hills ; and all nations shall flow unto it." — Isaiah 
ii. 2. 

" He will swallow up death in victory ; and the 
Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces : and 
the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off 
all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it." — Isaiah 
xxv. 8. 

If it is our Father's will that Esau's sons should 
gather his wheat into his garner and collect the 
crumbs that are lying under his table, thus regaining 
our lost birthright and breaking Jacob's yoke from 
off their necks, let me beseech you to apply your- 
selves at once to this, great, wondrous work. Search 
well this book, and if it proves to you that Christ was 
divine, he must be the Messiah for whom you still 
look, and when your people acknowledge him as such 
he will put on his glorious apparel and will come 
from Edom with dyed garments from Bo^rah, and 
Isaiah's beautiful description of the milennium time 
to be found in lxv. chap. 17 and following verses will 
be seen and enjoyed by those who have died, and those 
who then live in the faith of God's own beloved Son 
of whom St. Paul says in Colossians i. 15 : " He is the 
image of the invisible God, the first born of every 
creature, for by Him were all things created. He then 
goes on to show that He reconciled us to God by His 



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death on the cross, and also shows that by His Holy 
Spirit even those who are aliens and enemies will be 
brought to trust and believe in him. 

Although the subject to me seems exhaustless, still, 
I think I have written enough to show that Christ 
had, while on earth, the dignity, authority, and power 
belonging to God; and, therefore, that His divine 
nature was complete. That it is a great mystery 
none can deny ; but that we must believe in it, if we 
ever wish to see G-od and dwell with Him, is a fact 
which Scripture clearly proves ; and if God, as God, 
requires His justice to be satisfied ; if, as Christ, He 
has shown His love and requires ours in return ; if, 
as the Holy Spirit, He is willing to come in mercy, 
and only asks us to pray for His help, why cannot 
we humble ourselves to see things as He chooses, — 
be like little children, " humble, teachable, and mild," 
willing to learn in the way God chooses for us, even 
though it is not exactly the way that will satisfy our 
pride of intellect, or pride of any or every sort. We 
know that " we now see through a glass darkly, but 
then face to face." Now we know in part, but then 
shall we know also as we are known. There is evi- 
dently something kept back ; we are not now intend- 
ed to know everything, Now we are to trust and 
believe, so as to prepare us gradually to see and know 
God as He is — the Alpha and Omega — the beginning 
and the end — the first and the last. 

11 Blessed are they that do His commandments, that 
they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may 
enter in through the gates into the City, — that City 
where there is no night, for the Lord God giveth them 
light, and they shall reign for ever and ever." 
Come, Jews, behold the end draws near, 

The world on thee doth wait, 
As soon as you can see and hear, 
Christ and his church will mate. 



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He left his Father's throne above, 
And learnt our childish ways, 

He showed us how to live and love 
Yirtue's glorious ways. 

These ways which draw us near to God, 

Unite us link by link, 
Will cause our feet to be so shod 

Nothing can make us sink. 

The holy fire that Moses saw, 

That on your altar shone, 
Will purify all nature's laws; 

And place Christ on his throne. 

Instead of trying to unite 

Death's citadel to storm — , 
Each takes a flint and strikes a light, 

Which gives Death no alarm. 

When Christians, with united hearts, 

God's temple do embrace, 
With torches full of fiery darts ! 

Death they from earth will chase. 

Our sins to the cross are nailed ; 

Jesus has pierc'd death's sting, 
Christians hitherto have fail'd 

To fasten on death's wings. 

37th EZEKIEL. 
I see with the prophet's eyes 

The dry bones which he did see ; 
All around earth's valley lies 

A dead Christianity. 

But the breath of God will soon 
Each bone to his bone unite, — 

Skin, sinews, and flesh, assume 
Some great new power and might. 



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" Come from the four winds, O Breath ' 
And awake these sleeping bones, 

Snatch them from the arms of death, 
And make them glittering stones. 

Whose united, steady light, 

Will unmask the pomps of earth, 

And together burning bright. 
Prove them to be nothing worth. 

For such radiance will shine 

From the tabernacle then, 
That the riches of G-od's mine 

Will attract all sorts of men. 

Israel then will seek the fold, 

Christ the Shepherd they will own ; 

Again, as in the days of old, 

G-od will as their King be known. 

THE LOST TRIBES. 

And have we really found the lost 
Ten Tribes so often sought, 

Are Briton's sons the mighty host, 
The ones that Christ has taught. 

If this is true the time draws nigh 

For Esau's sons to wake, 
To take the bands from off their eyes, 

And Jacob's yoke to break. 

Two names our Father Jacob bore, 
Two nations thus have sprung, 

The Britons and the Turks of yore 
Must all from him have come. 

Then Jews at once the cross upraise, 
The crescent then will wane, 

When you Messiah learn to praise, 
And bow at Jesus' name. 



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You will your glory all attain, 

The tribes will reunite, 
God's ten commands will then regain 

Their pure and long lost light. 

When Esau's sons their birthright win 

The Serpent's race is run, 
Hearts then all purified from sin, 

Will his devices shun. 



PALESTINE. 

See, look through space to Palestine, 
While I now to you define 
What now is seen in this fair land, 
Desolate on ev'ry hand. 

Four belts this country now divide, 
Mediterranean on its side ; 
Fine foliage all around is seen, 
Trees of many shades of green. 

Moving along on Arab steed, 
Mules behind with all your need ; 
The tracts the animals have made 
Guide one through its lonely shade. 

Our winter frosts, with ice and snow, 
This fine country doth not know, 
Yet it is very lonely, sad, 
Natives wild and barely clad — 

Live on the hills, and clefts of rock, 
All they own, a little flock, 
Though here once God's own people dwelt, 
In the greatest temple knelt. 
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Where Tyre's towers once soar'd on high 
Fishers' nets are spread to dry ; . 
Woes, by Prophets long foretold, 
The traveller can there behold. 

Atheists you must cease to sneer, 
And begin our God to fear, 
For on this spot of hallow'd ground 
Truth of God's own word is found. 

Come, open out your temple-door, 

The gospel to accept ; 
The Spirit will his blessings pour 

When Christ you do elect. 

As King of kings, he stands and knocks, 

0, pray him enter in ; 
He is the great, the mighty rock, 

Who can us save from sin. 



A JEWISH MOTHER'S LAMENT. 

A Jewish mother, lone and sad, 
Sits mourning for her only son ; 

A dire disease struck down the lad ! 
Just as he had great honors won. 

In childhood he her rule obey'd, 
In youth he all her will fulfill'd ; 

His mind with learning well array 'd, 
And ev'ry virtue there instill'd. 

The Jews all lov'd this comely youth, 
And many thought that he might be 

A leader, chosen for his truth, 
To guide their people through the sea- 



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Back to Jerusalem, the land 

Where once they dwelt in glory great, 
With prophets, priests, on ev'ry hand, 

And kings, who sat in regal state. 

No, Jewish maidens ! Jewish sons, 
The glory that your people craves 

Can never dawn till Christ has won 
From you belief he died to save. 

As soon as this, with faith, you see, 
Your ancient glory will return, 

The Holy Land then soon will be 
The place to which you will sojourn. 

All then will see Christ's holy reign, — 
He comes with sceptre to restore, 

He comes to free the world from pain, 
And ev'ry blessing on us pour. 

Spiritual sight that Adam lost, 
Will gently by us be regain'd ; 

O, let not any earthly cost 

Be valu'd till this end 's attain'd. 

No mother then will have to sigh, 
No husband part with his dear wife, 

No father see his lov'd one die, 
All will be love, and rest and life. 

This time of bliss, this glorious time 
Must be by you now brought to pass, 

If you have come from Esau's line 
Your slavish days will soon be past. 

Awake then, now attend my call, 
Ev'ry tie from me I fling, — 

Come rouse thee, Jewish people all, 
And with me you will gaily sing. 



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That glorious temple you will build, 
One great altar you will raise ; 

All Satan's schemes to you will yield, 
And all will echo Jesus' praise. 

For he was G-od, the mighty God 
i As Prophet, Priest, he has been here ;. 
But when he comes as King, our God, 
Man will him love and never fear* 

If I God's holy people lead 

To kneel before the cross in truth r 

Your Numa will with all his seed, 
Enjoy again eternal youth* 



GOB'S PROVIDENCE. 

What wondrous care our Father takes 

Of all his faithful flock; 
He guides us when we sleep or wake, 

And winds us likes a clock. 

Through trials small and trials groat, 

On ev'ry side beset, 
He teaches us to work and wait 

Till he his throne has set. 

The seasons four in order come, 
And with them cold and heat ; 

Each day behold the beauteous sun, 
With rays of light we meet. 

The moon with softer light to soothe, 
The stars around to cheer, 

The planets as they daily move — 
All for mankind appear. 



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The trees alone, in summer time, 

Are clad in robes of green, 
In winter they their leaves do hide, 

And gray and bare are seen. 

And on the trees grow lovely fruit, 

Quite perfect in their form, 
Each one with scent or taste to suit, 

Our garden to adorn. 

Some good and useful sap do yield 

To comfort and sustain ; 
Their branches from the sun to shield, 

And shelter from the rain. 

Good people, like fine trees in bloom, 

Enrich the very ground, 
"While dead and burnt ones cast a gloom 

And sadness all around. 

We cannot nature's works assist, 

Nor can we understand, 
Before our eyes there is a mist 

"Which covers sea and land. 

This veil, which sin has caused to grow, 
"Which hides G-od from our eyes, 

Is growing thicker, from the flow 
Of self-deceit and lies. 



THE CHEISTIAN'S HOPE. 

Great Spirit of this mighty world, 
Who Adam thy sweet voice has heard, 
Send down to earth, thy regal chair ; 
And reign o'er earth, sea, sky and air. 



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Let Jew and Gentile, Turk and slave 
Learn how thou dost redeem and save ; 
And that thou soon will glorify 
The humblest saint, though low he lie. 

Yes ? raise him from his dusky bed. 
To join the choir by angels led, 
To live a pure and holy life, 
And make an end of all our strife. 

Come holy spirit, come, oh ! come, 
Teach us all evil now to shun, 
The power of gold at once destroy, 
And give us joys without alloy. 

Speak but the word, death's reign is o'er 
Fresh blessings on thy children pour, 
Sickness, pain and sorrow, all 
Will flee before the angel's call. 

The Tree of Life to us restore, 
That we may live for evermore ; 
Feed us with its heavenly fruit ; 
And blossoms sweet will from us shoot, 



THE LOYE OF GOIX 

The love of God, majestic theme, 

In the elements is seen, 

They are the germs from which do spring. 

Every moving, living thing. 

Man above all was made to show, 
His great glory here below, 
When sin, his beauty did deface, 
Love restored to him his grace. 



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And though man lives to disobey 
His Creator, day by day, 
Yet untold blessings him surround. 
Treasures for him fill the ground. 

For man, God keeps his garners full, 
Yearly grains and fruits to cull, 
But fresh supplies their places fill 
When man does the ground well till. 

In sleep his angels guard his bed 
Righteous souls by him are fed, 
Light cheers his spirit day by day, 
On his sad and lonely way. 

He sent his Son, his love to seal, 
Satan's deadly wound to heal ; 
Streams of blood for man he shed ; 
His body laid among the dead. 

He lives again to intercede, 
And with God for man to plead, 
That he would to the earth restore, 
Life and joy for evermore. 



GOD'S SPIRITUAL PRESENCE IN THE 
BREAD AND WINE. 

Daily our bodies take their food, 
And try to get it pure and good, 
Few, very few, refuse their gold, 
To buy the best that can be sold. 

The earth in summer season yields 
Grain, grass and fruits, in all her fields, 
When God withholds his bount'ous hand, 
Famine spreads all around the land. 



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Our souls from God must all be fed. 
Or they will be by Satan led ; 
In faith, his presence we must see, 
Or we can never happy be. 

No incense now that we can buy 

Will draw God from his throne on high, 

Pure and united faith and love 

Will make our earth like heav'n above. 

God, on the Jewish mercy seat, 
In the Schekinah priest did meet 
The spirit there made known to man, 
In fire, the great Creator's plan. 

Man faiFd to work out God's design, 
And lost this wondrous, mystic sign, 
To save us from the Father's wrath, 
Christ shed his blood upon the cross. 

While on this earth, with man Christ walk'd. 

And to his priests, he daily talk'd ; 

His holy presence left behind , 

To cheer the faint and cure the blind. 

The body now, the spirit wears, 
Is bread and wine the altar bears, 
'Tis true, God's essence fills all space, 
But there he feeds us with his grace. 

When once man really can believe, 
He does in Sacraments receive 
The food his spirit does require, 
Again will glow the Holy Fire. 

We show our love when we obey, 
Our faith, that Christ prepar'd the way, 
Our hope, that he will soon descend ; 
And saints and angels him attend. 



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He comes not now to bleed and die, 
But all below to glorify; 
He comes to sit as king in state, 
And make the lowly Christian great. 

Man yet will live for ever, 
His blood will always flow ; 

Nothing us from Christ will sever 
When earth is Heav'n below. 



JOHN THE BAPTIST. 

A righteous priest we now behold, 

A virtuous wife had he, 
Zacharias his name we're told, — 

One of Aaron's daughters she. 

All the commands of God they kept, 

His ordinances fulfill' d ; 
They lov'd his righteous precepts, — 

Truth in them was well instill'd. 

Still a miracle they did need 
To open their eye of faith, 

And that God did to them concede 
The narrative further saith. 

This priest did at the altar burn 

Incense in the holy place, 
When suddenly he does discern, 

On his right an angel's face. 

Now full of dread he trembling stood, 
For the angel to him spake, 

And bade him trust, for soon he shoul 
Of an earthly joy partake. 



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The dearest wishes of his heart 
Had reached the throne above ; 

The father soon would do his part 
And shower on him his love. 

His lonely hearth God soon would cheer, 
For his wife would have a son 

Who should be great in faith, but fear 
JSTow struck Zacharias dumb — 

And speechless, we are told, remain'd 
Till all things had been perform'd, 

Then were the things to him explain'd 
That he so before had scorn'd. 

When he in God's own temple bent 

His child to circumcise, 
The Holy Ghost, in quick descent, 

Miraculous grace applies. 

His name is John, his father wrote, 

As the angel had desir'd ; 
In verse what follows, I do quote, 

As the Spirit has inspir'd : 

His tongue was loos'd in praises loud, 
Good news from Heav'n to men, 

Messiah comes to pierce sin's cloud, 
And the stream of sin to stem. 

This John was sent men to prepare 
For the day spring from on high ; 

He did with moral courage dare 
Sin's temptations to defy. 

In raiment, made of camel's hair, 
He all pride of life disclaim'd ; 

The leathern girdle he did wear 
All his other passions chain'd ; 



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Locusts and honey were his meat — 
Such the poorest could obtain, 

To him as good as finest wheat, 
While he did the Christ proclaim. 

May we, like John, prepare the way, 
Subduing ourselves with toil, 

Presenting quite a bright array 
Of lamps well fill'd with oil. 

All burning with a strong desire 
To see the dear Bridegroom's face, 

Who soon will come with holy fire, 
And give to each saint a place. 



THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE. 

Christian women of all creeds 
Combine to draw out all the weeds 
That Satan has so slyly sown, 
And in the garb of goodness grown. 

Each one believes his church is right, 
And does not wish for other light, 
But all our lights together thrown 
Would make earth blaze from zone to zone. 

The light of day shines all around, 
The heavens with stars of light abound ; 
Direct from God all light is sent, 
To ev'ry one this light is lent. 

A written word to man God gave, 
Our souls to rescue from the grave ; 
Christ's perfect body bore the cross, 
That we might gain what Adam lost. 



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The Spirit yet still strives with man, 
With love bids all accept God's plan ; 
And use all God's own precious ore, 
Unmixed with any priestly lore. 

Then in a circle let us join, 
And cast out all the worthless coin ; 
Christ will to earth again return, 
When we all evil learn to spurn. 

When all our passions we restrain, 
New life will run through ev'ry vein ; 
The glory of the Lord will shine, 
Through this church to ev'ry clime. 



THE ORIGIN OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. 

The first oblation, we are told, 
The Lord did from man receive 

Caus'd Satan's nature to enfold ; 
Cain, like Eve, he did deceive 

To sacrifice what he thought right , 
Not the thing that God requir'd, 

Then the Lord withdrew from sight ; 
With rage, Satan, Cain inspir'd 

His brother Abel, to destroy ; 

Then the spectre death appears, 
Ruining all man's earthly joys, 

And filling his eyes with tears. 

Enoch did walk with Grod, we hear, 

So his body ne'er decay'd ; 
As he, his Maker did revere, 

He in glory was array'd. 



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Noah, when from the ark, releas'd, 
Beast and bird did sacrifice, — 

This is the next atoning feast, 
And its incense pierc'd the skies. 

Here the name altar first appears, 

In the sacred Holy Book, 
A word which Satan never hears 

Without angry thought and look. 

Both Abraham and Jacob too 
Did to God stone altars raise, 

Through life they goodness did pursue, 
And the great Creator praise. 

Then, after these, the Lord desir'd 
Moses one of earth to make — 

All three offerings, God requir'd ; 
On this altar bid him stake. 

A type of Christ, whose body pure, 
Should for all the world atone ; 

He is the altar, firm and sure, 
That will soon, King Death dethrone. 

God's sanctuary altars were 

To a tabernacle chang'd, 
Which in Aaron, the high priest's care, 

Moses saw, was. well arrang'd. 

On it God's glory did descend, 

In a cloudy pillar round. 
They worshipp'd, and did apprehend 

God in prayer would there be found. 

The altar was within it plac'd, 

This the Lord did satisfy ; 
The five things then the altar grae'd 

Will us yet electrify. 



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A type to us, each one must be, 
Of our present means of grace ; 

Christ changed them, that he might set free 
Streams of love to Adam's race. 

The ark, like any new-born babe, 

Was made to contain G-od's word, 
With that within it firmly stayed 
Gold did it surmount and gird, 

So that it seems to represent 

The regenerating power 
Of water, when, with good intent, 

Baptism, the babe does shower. 

Then the table of shew-bread stands 

For our spiritual food, 
Which, at the altar, Christ commands, 

To be eaten for our good. 

The wine we take comes from the vine, 
Whose essence in streams does flow, 

With tendrils round each soul to twine, 
This Shekinah's sight does show. 

The incense, with its perfume sweet, 

Like the fragrance of a home 
Where love and duty joyful meet, 

And discords are never known ; 

Whose inmates have been join'd in one 

By a holy, sacred rite ; 
A blessing from above have won, 

From their holiness of life. 

A stately candlestick I see, 
Whose tapers are lost to sight, 

An emblem of the church to me, 
With its dim, flickering light. 



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But God's spirit will yet renew, 
Fresh oil he will soon employ, 
To bring his precious gifts to view, 
And the veil of sin destroy. 

To draw a curse upon the good, 

Balaam did seven altars raise ; 
But God there told him, that he should 

Bless all those who sang his praise. 

Baal, we know, had altars too, 

Gideon did cast down one, 
This the angel desir'd him do, 

With ten men the work was done. 

An emblem of God's ten pure laws, 
"Which will evil ways restrain, 

And close forever death's wide jaws, 
When our lives their truth sustain. 

Then holy fire again will shine, 

And upon our altars burn ; 
God's beloved beauteous vine, 

We will one and all discern. 

Two things without the camp we find, 
Which the Christian does not need, 

For Christ has both these things combined- 
He has died, and now does plead. 

One altar now will satisfy, 

No laver do we require ; 
Our sacraments can purify, 

And fill us with inward fire. 

These were the outward forms, whereby 

God signified to mankind 
That his own Son should live and die, 

Satan's web of sin to bind. 



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But man himself must snap the chain, 
He must bruise the serpent's heel ; 

Till then, Christ always will refrain 
From setting on sin his seal. 

The priesthood which from Aaron came, 
And which God did sanctify, 

A temple afterwards did frame — 
The Great God did glorify. 

The tabernacle mov'd around 

This temple solid and staid, 
With strong foundations underground, 

Immoveable was made. 

King Solomon this temple rear'd, 

King David did it design, 
When God in glory there appear'd 

Holy fire did in it shine. 

Mount Mori ah, King David chose 
This great temple's site to be, 

For there his incense once arose, 
Which caus'd pestilence to flee. 

And where the brazen serpent stood 

Until Hezekiah's reign, — 
Which was a monument of good, 

To destroy the serpent's pain. 

Then Abraham's great offering 
On this very spot was made, 

His only son he here did bring, 
But his sacrifice God stay'd. 

This temple, rich with gems and gold, 
Built of finest wood and stone, 

By hearts who lavish'd wealth untold, 
Yet for sin could not atone. 



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The worship could not have been pure, 

Some lingering idol shar'd ; 
To make our earthly temple sure, 

God to us his own Son spar'd, 

That we might, like him, learn to live, 

To love, worship and obey ; 
Our hearts into his keeping give, 

And trust him day by day. 

Man's first great temple was destroy'd 
By the pillage fire and swords, 

"Which Babylonian's king employ 'd 
To augment his strength and hoards. 

The riches, and the labour, ail 
That King Solomon had spent, 

Was doom'd, and, like a fallen star, 
None could tell the way it went. 

Tears passed this desolated place, 

Nehemiah did revive ; 
The city he by night did pace, 

And by day with men did strive, 

Till his great faith and works, at length, 

This temple did rebuild ; 
God blessed him, and gave him strength, 

And with courage him instill'd. 

The second temple ne'er obtain'd 

The glory the first beheld,; 
A veil had then God's light restrain'd, 

And his holy fire withheld. 

The tables on which Moses wrote 
The laws God to him made known, 

God to another never spoke, 
Nor again bid write on stone. 
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Urim and Thummim, from whence came 
Answers from the King Divine, 

"Which to the High Priest did proclaim 
God's will by some unknown sign,. 

These with the gift of prophecy, 
Which soon after pass'd away, 

Do very clearly specify 
A want of heavenly ray, 

Which the first temple did pervade y 
And its beauty much enhance ; 

But mankind did so retrogade 

These did not their souls entrance. 

Prayer-houses,* Proseuchai call'd, 
Spread around about this time ; 

In fields and mountains there install'd, 
To Heaven their thoughts did climb. 

In towns and cities synagogues 
Were in use throughout the land, 

And many were the demagogues 
Which in them did reprimand. 

When God in mercy sent his Son 
Man to try and teach his will ; 

But even this beloved one 

Man has not restrain 'd from ill. 



* Synagogues were sometimes called prayer-housea, yet there 
were prayer-houses called Proseuchai, which differed from syna- 
gogues in three respects : — 1st, They were used occassionally for 
private devotions, ; 2nd, they had walls, but were open to the sky ; 
and, 3rd, they were built infields and mountains, while synagogues 
were only built in towns and cities. It wag perhaps in one of these 
prayer-houses our Saviour spent his night in prayer, 



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Though, by his life he testified 
His power and might divine, — 

By death and resurrection tried 
Satan's throne to undermine, 

But still within men's hearts sin reigns, — 
Earthly glories make men toil, — 

Satan with gold his sway maintains, 
And the Spirit's reign does foil. 

So though the Church that Christ did plant 
Fresh leaves has before us spread, 

As formerly we pray and chant, 
And by Satan's wiles are led ; 

For Christ's sacraments have not bloom'd, 
Their flowers are not yet seen,— 

For Satan and his reign are doom'd 
When Christ's blossoms here do gleam. 

The shepherds did God's glory see 
When the Virgin and her Babe, 

With faith and great humility, 
In a common manger laid ; 

For God's first prophecy to man 

Then about to be reveal'd, 
His wondrous, great redemption's plan, 

Drew forth his wondrous shield. 

Christ's triumph over evil deeds 
Surely bruised the serpent's head, 

And his example mankind leads 
All in virtue's paths to tread. 

Money-changers he did ejeet 

From the temple, with a scourge, 

And twelve apostles did select 
These abuses all to purge. 



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The keys of goodness in their hands, 
Through St. Peter, he did place, 

Himself the rock on which still stands 
The Church that will free man's race. 

"When reunited, it does show 
The power of destroying sin — 

Then the latter house will glow 
"With sin's antidote within. 

Fulfilling Haggai's prophecy, 

Written many years ago, — 
That God his house would glorify, 

And Satan's power overthrow. 

Many prophecies, we well know, 

Our Saviour has explain'd, 
The others he will to us show 

When his precepts are maintain 'd. 

Write at once upon all hearts 

G-od's commands that Moses wrote, 

Christ said they made the two great charts 
By which all must steer and float. 

He their great heauty did portray, 
All his life by them did guide, 

He suffered for them day by day, 
And to teach us them he died. 

That all men might enjoy again 

The happiness Adam lost, 
Without the sorrow, woe and pain, 

His sins all the race have cost. 

Then let us fill our hearts with love, 
For our G-od to reign supreme, 

His Holy Spirit, like a dove, 
Will then on each head be seen. 



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His temple — one great blaze of light, — 

Like a beacon will appear ; 
Then Zion's hill will be a sight 

That the human race will cheer. 

A valley only did divide 

Moriah from David's hill, 
Majestically side by side, 

They with awe our thoughts do fill. 

Solomon did these hill unite, 
His bridge did this valley span ; 

May Christ's great love the Jews incite 
To embrace redemption's plan. 

For when the Jew and Christian join, 
The mountains will together meet, 

And Satan with his worthless coin 
Be trodden underneath their feet. 

Baal's altars do still retain 
Upon this our earth a place, 

Then the angel will exclaim, 
Of Baal leave not a trace ! 

Pray, then, that all will soon grow wise, 

Put from them every sin, 
And use their energies and eyes, 

Crowns of righteousness to win. 



A PRAYER. 

When to thy temple Lord we haste, 
Make our thoughts both wise and chaste 
O teach us when we bend our knees, 
Thee alone to try and please. 



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Let our spirits soar far above, 
Draw them with the cords of love ; 
Take Satan's poison from our veins, 
With thy blood wash out the stains. 

We lay our souls within thy arms, 
Earthly grandeur's lost its charms, 
The world seems hollow and untrue, 
Quickly come and make things new. 

How blind and deaf man has become 
To the work that thou hast done ; 
Creation groan'd thou didst redeem, 
From sin thou did'st try to wean. 

Each one his idol tightly grasps, 
Gladly does the devil's tasks, 
With iron chains he binds their feet, 
As each victim he does cheat. 

The web of sin which he does weave 
Causes ev'ry pulse to heave , 
The sweets that he man gives to taste, 
Guides him to the grave with haste. 

But in thy house there is a peace, 
There earth's trials all do cease ; 
Our hearts seem there to fill with love, 
Cheer'd with -voices from above. 



THIS SCROLL 
IS ADDRESSED BY THE AUTHORESS 

TO HIS HOLINESS 

POPE PIUS THE NINTH 



May it please tour Holiness. 

The great trials that you have endured since you 
called together your Bishops to consult with you on 
holy things, and the division which your calling 
yourself infallible has caused in your branch of the 
Christian church, may, perhaps, have prepared your 
mind to re-consider the subject, I therefore again take 
the liberty of bringing it before you with other sub- 
jects of grave importance. For the Heathen will 
never embrace the doctrines of Christianity while we 
are a house divided against itself, but when together, 
we put away Pride and search for Truth, we will be- 
come a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of 
the people of Israel. I beseech you, take God's 
Holy Word and see what it says about man's past, 
present and future state. Let us carry back our 
minds to that time when God, having prepared this 
beautiful world, one lovely garden containing all that 
the eye delights to behold, created and placed in it a 
perfect man, pure and holy, a little lower than the 
angels, who received one command from God Him- 
self, not to eat the fruit of one tree in the garden. To 
make him completely happy, Eve was given to be 
his comforter and companion. The Bible does not 
say that God talked with Eve, but it does saythat she 



knew the command ; the serpent must have known 
it also. Whether the privilege of seeing, walking and 
talking with God was enjoyed by Adam alone, we 
cannot say : or, whether man was made by God to fill 
the place of those angels " which kept not their first 
•estate," but left their own habitation, we can only 
•conjecture. 

Peter and Jude inform us that angels were cast out 
of heaven, and Matthew xxv. 41 says that hell was 
prepared for them ; so that it was with very bitter 
feelings that they saw man in such a glorious world. 
The serpent is said to have been subtle, which means 
easily penetrated, so the Devil hid himself in the ser- 
pent, and tempted Eve to disobey God, under the plea 
of acquiring knowledge. Then she persuaded Adam. 
The Devil, thus using three instruments, the serpent, 
Eve and Adam, who he filled with unbelief, pride and 
disobedience, the very arts he uses with all mankind ; 
it brought three curses on the serpent, mankind and 
the earth, which was God's work of the 3rd, 5th and 
6th days, which three figures, by placing man before 
beast, make 365, the exact number of days in the year, 
so that they, perhaps, are under the curse. The sun, 
moon, stars, sky and heaven, still retain their original 
beauty, though clouds sometimes hide them from our 
gaze. But God loved man so much that while he 
passed the sentence of death on his body he promised 
a Saviour for his soul, who would be an antidote, as 
it were, which would prevent the poison from affect- 
ing his everlasting state, provided man tried to please 
God, washed away his sins in the blood of Christ, and 
partook of the food which Christ commanded for the 
strengthening and refreshing of his soul ; but even 
this will not make him infallible. For David prays, 
in the 19th Psalm, to be made to understand his 
errors, to be cleansed from his secret sins, and to be 
kept back from presumptuous sins. The clouds, in 



different ways, often hide from our eyes the glory and 
beauty of the sun ; flying clouds may represent our 
errors, a haze may signify our secret sins, and the 
heavy storm our presumptuous sins ; but to be left 
without the sun, as they were at the time of the flood, 
is but a faint idea of perpetual banishment from the 
presence from God. This will be everlasting misery. 
There are many kinds of serpents, and they are divided 
into two classes, those who crush their victims to 
death and those who poison them. Now, supposing 
that one of each of these kind of serpents had appeared 
in your Council, crushing and poisoning your bishops, 
would your swallowing an antidote have saved their 
lives. Alas ! no ! You can never counteract the ser- 
pent's deadly sting, nor have you the power to destroy 
the sinful desires of the world, the flesh and the Devil, 
with which every human being is possessed. Nothing 
but the grace of God can do this. Christ alone can 
bruise the serpent's head. All that man can do with 
the help of God's Holy Spirit, is to bruise his heel. 
St. John warns us of this. In his First Epistle he 
addresses us as little children, iii. 7, and shows us 
that, by being righteous alone can we bruise the ser- 
pent's heel. The Son of God was manifested to 
destroy the works of the Devil, but he only acts when 
we do our part ; for it does not say that Christ will 
bruise his head unless we bruise his heel ; here is faith 
and works. 

But if the works of the patriarchs, who had a living 
faith was imperfect, how can any pope or prelate in 
these days be infallible ? For the first revelation after 
the fall Christ appeared to man as an angel, and 
talked with him, and this was not enough to prevent 
the world from growing gradually more and more 
wicked. In proof of this assertion, look at the world 
at the time of the flood. To rest on the seventh day 
seems to have been the principal command, and, at 



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that time there was but one righteous man found on 
the earth, who was Noah, who God saved with his 
family in an ark, a word of three letters, which was 
really the first Church of God on earth. Noah's first 
act after the flood was to build an altar and offer 
a sacrifice to God, which showed his faith in a coming 
Saviour, for which faith he was saved when all the 
world was drowned ; but, though God accepted the 
offering, he must have seen some imperfection in it, 
for God said, " I will not curse the ground any more, 
for the imagination of man's heart is only evil conti- 
nually." And though he had been so wonderfully 
preserved, see how soon we read of his being drunken, 
and he was not infallible enough to keep his three 
sons in the paths of virtue and holiness, for he was 
obliged to curse his son Ham for his wickedness ; and 
the next account we have of the world is that pride 
raged so that man thought he could raise a tower that 
would reach to heaven, but God frustrated their design 
by confounding their language, and thus people were 
scattered over the earth. With a variety of language 
sprung up, most likely, a variety of false worship. 
For Abraham was commanded by God himself to re- 
move from the place in which he was living and he 
would bless him. How sweetly Abraham obeys, old 
as he was. Seventy-five years of his life he had lived 
there. He must have had many friends and strong 
inducements to remain and disobey God ; but we hear 
of no murmur ; still he was not infallible. In offering 
up his son he showed a perfect faith and trust in God's 
promise of a Messiah, but the poison of the serpent 
was in his veins, and with him as with all mankind 
except Christ, the Devil had his hours of triumph' 
But this is his kingdom, for we know that he is the 
God of this world, therefore he uses all his arts to 
allure us, and as long as we live on this earth we must 
either put on the whole armour of God and fight a 



daily battle with Satan, or our feet will slide into 
some bye-path, and we will be overwhelmed by the 
pomps and vanities of the world. Thus, up to Noah's 
time, there was no infallible person found on this 
earth. Noah built, as it were in a figure, the first 
church. Abraham, in his offering his son, showed us 
the kind of faith that God requires of us, which must 
be a willingness to give up the dearest idol of our 
hearts. Isaac's purity and willingness to be offered 
a perfect type of Christ's love to man. God could 
have saved Noah without making him build an ark, 
but God's plan is to make man shew his faith by his 
works. In building the ark Noah worked out his 
faith. God might, if He had chosen, have banished 
sin from this world by Christ's death ; but, instead, 
he has left ordinances and commands to be observed, 
and a church or ark to carry us through the waters 
of strife, and to teach us how to escape the snares and 
nets which the Devil has set to catch us in. Let us 
look, then, to see that our ark shall be 450 feet long, 
75 broad and 45 high, or in other words, that it shall 
be built as near as possible on the foundation of the 
Apostles. Jesus Christ himself, " like the figure 5 in 
the ark," being the chief " corner stone." 

"This is the stone which was set at nought of you 
builders, which is become the head of the corner." 
Neither is there salvation in any other,for there is none 
other name under heaven given among men where- 
by we must be saved. Acts iv. 11, 12., for Christ alone 
is infallible. Ifwe next take Isaac, we see in the strife 
and struggling between his sons that he was not infal- 
lible, and if Esau, selling his birthright to Jacob, is a 
type of the Jews rejecting Christ and the call of the 
Gentiles, the latter part of the blessing, that he shall 
break the yoke of his neck, will be fulfilled as soon as 
they acknowledge Christ ; for the Jews may be the 
descendants of Esau and the Christians of Jacob, and 



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the elder in this case have really served the younger. 
And we have really seen the Scriptures literally ful- 
filled without perceiving it. We next have the beau- 
tiful character of Joseph presented to us. Isaac 
appears to have been the type of the divine nature of 
Christ, but Joseph tho type of his human nature. 
See how he is betrayed by his brethren, and sold ; 
see how the Devil tempted him, and see how, guided 
by God's Holy Spirit, he overcame every temptation, 
and how beautifully the first revelation of God to 
man closes with his death. In all the Bible these 
are the only two characters who did not fail them- 
selves in fulfilling the moral law, but they were 
not infallible ; for their descendants rebelled 
against their Maker. So loving, good and holy is 
God, that He now gave man a written law, written 
with His own finger on two tables of stone ; a true 
picture of the way the Holy Spirit tries to write on 
our stony hearts,and to transmit these commandments 
to us — God raised up Moses, a man who God led him- 
self for forty years through many great trials to 
subdue his angry spirit, and to prepare him for the 
work which God gave him to do. And now, having 
found nothing infallible under the first revelation, 
let us glance at the second, one which was a written 
revelation, and was given by God himself to Moses, 
who, after being brought up in the king's palace, is 
reduced to the occupation of keeping sheep, where 
he learnt, no doubt, patience and contentment ; and 
the first thing that God tells him is that he is the 
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This seems to 
have been intended for an assurance to Moses that 
they still existed in some unseen place, for had they 
altogether passed out of existence God would have 
said, " I was." Then the bush appearing to be burn- 
ing without fire to kindle it, was an emblem of the 
devices which Satan would use to destroy the Church 



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of God ; but, kept by God's especial care and purified 
by God's Holy Spirit, it will, like the ark, when it 
came through the waters of the flood, cast out all 
unclean animals which were in it, which animals 
may, perhaps, be a type of all the different religions 
and sects which seem, as it were, to have divided the 
law of Moses between them, to have made four parts 
of Christ's garments and broken the wedding ring 
with which Christ had encircled his Church. But 
the Holy Spirit is coming to open the eyes of the 
world, and he will bind with faith, hope and charity, 
the Church in which raging fires have burnt, but 
which have not destroyed the garments which are 
prepared for the Bride when she is reunited to her 
Spouse. Before God gave Moses His written law He 
talked with him, but, even while God is talking with 
him he shrinks from the work which was his privi- 
lege to perform, forgetting that God would help him, 
with his Holy Spirit, to do all the work that He gave 
him to do, provided that he prayed for that help ; so 
God assures him of this help, for He said to him, 
"Certainly I will be with thee." God chose him as 
His servant because he had faith in a coming Saviour, 
and then teaches him that the Holy Spirit would lead 
him, as he led our Saviour to the wilderness, to endure 
temptation for us and conquer sin. So the Holy 
Spirit leads every baptized Christian to try and over- 
come the sinful desires of the flesh, and, instead, to 
plant the Christian graces, which St. Paul tells us, 
are the fruits of the Spirit. 

Pharaoh's heart is only a true picture of a man's 
heart at any time when under the dominion of the 
Evil Spirit. The ten plagues being one for each 
commandment that he breaks, and when, by degrees, 
he thinks nothing of breaking all, preparing himself 
for endless misery. The first plague, the turning the 
river Nile into blood, was, there was no doubt, 



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intended to show the Egyptians and Israelites that 
man must worship the one Holy and true God. The 
plagues of frogs, lice, flies and beasts, may be a 
picture of our four religions in the sight of God, 
when man places his trust in them, instead of being 
led by God's Holy Spirit to practice the graces which 
he loves. The plague of boils and blains, of hail, of 
locusts and thick darkness, a picture of the spiritua 
state of each of these religions, bound with the sins 
with which the Devil blinds men's eyes, and the 
state of corruption which sin has brought our bodies 
to. Thenjthe last plague teaches us that when we have 
humbled ourselves to see to what a condition sin has 
brought us and how soiled and stained our souls are, 
that there is one perfect sacrifice provided, which 
alone can wash and purify and fit us to see God ; but 
common sense will tell us that, unless we are led 
through this world or wilderness by God's Holy 
Spirit, we will be fit only to be drowned like the 
Egyptians in the Red Sea,and banished with the wicked 
from the presence of God. The last plague with 
which God visited Pharoah was death, and even this 
heavy calamity did not teach Pharoah to humble 
himself before God, yet, why so surprised at this, we 
see coffins and hearses every day, taking to their last 
home some pilgrims, and how little do we think of it 
as a lesson which ought to teach us " to do justly, to 
love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." — 
Micah vi. 8. The great lesson which was fore- 
shadowed by this plague was the death of Christ. 
God required an atonement for the sins of men, and 
the Jews were required to offer a lamb from that day 
till Christ suffered the shameful death of the cross, 
and offered himself a sacrifice for the sins of the 
whole world. The command to strike the two side- 
posts and the upper door-post, is, to my mind, a 
shadow of the cross, at all events, there were to be 



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the three marks of blood on every Israelite's door; 
and they were never to fail to keep the PassOver as 
long as they lived. Since Christ's resurrection our 
Easter has taken its place, and Christians should, 
with love sincere and holy, pray that God's Holy 
Spirit would lead them to approach the Lord's table 
at this sacred time and spiritually to partake of 
Christ's body and blood, which alone can take the 
serpent's poison out of our veins. " For there is one 
God and one Mediator between God and man, the 
Man Christ Jesus." The Jews were ordered to keep 
the lamb four days. Now these four days may be a 
type of the four religions, Jew, Christian, Mahom- 
medan and Brahmin, which, divided as they are now, 
are keeping us from knowing Christ; but when they 
unite and form that one tree which man lost when 
Adam fell, will produce nothing but good fruit, for 
there will then be no envy, no malice, no striving 
who will be the greatest, but all will seek to show 
forth God's glory by their thoughts, words and deeds ; 
there will no more be a constant striving for money, 
"the love of which is the root of all evil;" but the 
Christian graces of faith, hope and charity will so 
fill the hearts and souls of all the world, that earth 
will become a heaven below, and " the angel having 
the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his 
hand, will lay hold on the old Serpent, which is the 
Devil and Satan, and bind him a thousand years." 
Eevelations xx. 1, 2, 3. 

The ten dreadful plagues, having so little effect 
on Pharoah's heart, should teach us to examine 
closely our own hearts, to see whether our trials and 
troubles are making us humble and Christ-like, or 
whether, like Pharoah, we are unwilling to allow our 
sins to depart from us, but follow them up day by 
day, till at last they hurry us into everlasting misery. 
Thinking, like Pharoah, that we are infallible, and 
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wishing the world to worship us, instead of our try- 
ing to teach the world to worship Christ, by our 
amiable and gentle ways. For Christians should 
now try all in their power to lift the cloud from the 
tabernacle, which keeps the Jew from knowing 
Christ ; and should themselves try and see the pillar 
of fire, which is God's Holy Spirit, guiding, guarding 
and leading them to a knowledge of the truth. But, 
alas ! how many will only know him too late ! The Holy 
Spirit has been striving with man ever since the fall, 
but we know that he has said, in Genesis vi. 3, " My 
Spirit shall not always strive with man." God will 
not always strive to see if man will follow the guid- 
ance of the Good Spirit, instead of the Evil, and 
weigh the world and its attractions at their real 
value. Since the fall of man, God seems to have 
spoken only five times to man by his Holy Spirit, in 
a voice that could be heard by mortal ears, besides 
those two wonderful revelations to Moses in the giving 
of the Law.* First, in Genesis xvii. 1, God spoke to 
Abraham, " I am the Almighty God, walk before me 
and be thou perfect ;" and Abraham fell on his face. 
Twice to Moses ; first, in Exodus, iii. 6, "I am the 
God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of 
Isaac, and the God of Jacob ; and Moses fell on his 
face." In Exodus xxxiii. 20 and following verses, 
where God tells Moses that no man can see Him and 
live. In the 18th John, 6th verse, where Jesus says, 
"I am He;" the divine nature must have spoken, 
for they went backward and fell to the ground. Then 
the 17 th Matthew, 5 verse : This is my beloved Son, 
in whom I am well pleased ; hear ye Him." Making 
in all seven times. 

Man does not realize the mercy and goodness of 
God in sending us a written law and begging and 

* Still in dream and Yision it has been heard. 



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beseeching us by the gentle pleadings of his Holy 
Spirit to accept salvation now, through the Saviour 
so that when He comes as King, in a cloud with great 
glory, we may be able to look up to Him and feel 
that our redemption draweth nigh. Luke xxi. 27. 

Before I close this letter, which I have already 
spun out to a great length, I wish to call your atten- 
tion to one fact more, viz. : in the 7th Exodus, 6, 
u The Lord said to Moses, Aaron thy brother shall 
be my prophet." Now this is the second priest of 
which there is any mention, Jethro, Moses' father- 
in-law, was the first Priest, Moses was a law-giver 
but not a priest. But in every case the Lord 
speaks to Moses first. The Jewish law was so intri- 
cate, and so minute, that it was impossible to keep it 
perfectly, "and without shedding of blood is no 
remission." Hebrews ix. 22. How thankful we should 
be that the shadow^or the cloud has been lifted off our 
tabernacle, and that the glorious light of the Gospel 
shows us Christ, the end of the law for righteousness. 
" For the law maketh men high priests which have 
infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since 
the law, maketh the Son which is consecrated for 
evermore." Hebrews vii. 28. Was Aaron, the first 
high priest, infallible ? No. His pride was his des. 
truction. When the people murmured for water in 
the desert of Zin, Moses and Aaron spoke as if they 
must fetch the water themselves, (Numbers xx. 10,) 
forgetting to give the glory of the miracle to God, 
and for this great sin Aaron was made to mount up 
to Mount Hor, to be stripped of his garments and to 
be gathered to his fathers ; and, although Moses was 
allowed to live a little longer/ yet, for this same sin 
he was not allowed to enter into the promised land. 
Deuteronomy xxxii. 51. Now, allow me to tell your 
Holiness that, in calling yourself infallible, you have 
committed exactly the same sin that Moses and 



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Aaron did at the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, in the 
wilderness of Zin ; and I beseech you, before yon are 
called to appear before your Maker, to retract this 
dogma which you have just caused to be passed ; for, 
if God punished so heavily those who lived under 
the law, (Hebrews x. 28, 29,) " Of how much sorer 
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, 
who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and 
hath counted the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith 
he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done 
despite unto the Spirit of Grace." Ponder these 
things, and may God, in his great mercy, bring you 
to a knowledge of the sinfulness of all mankind, and 
the madness of thinking any one infallible. " For all 
havd sinned and come short of the glory of God." — 
Romans iii. 23. 



THE CHRISTIAN'S ARK. 

As vessels point to North or South, 
Or turn their sides to East and "West ; 

So souls of men, by word of mouth, 
Are veering round and seeking rest. 

As the needle moves those tiny hands, 
That guides the sailor on his way, 

And carries the ship to other lands, 
So do our souls require a stay. 

The church of God that stay should be ; 
But man has rent and torn it so, 
f '' A Christian must become a bee, 
And gather honey to and fro. 

A broken cistern it is now, 
Various streams do from it flow ; 
^ When we together all do bow, 

One ark again will save from woe. 



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The ship ere it is fit for sea, 

Is made secure and water-tight, 
The rudder must be firm and free, 

The anchor chain hung well in sight. 

The compass without the needle's point 
Would dash the ship against the rock ; 

The word of God must be the joint, 
Christ the anchor, our souls to lock. 

Let us pray for the spirit's aid, 

To re-unite with love's cement, 
The Church for which Christ's blood was paid, 

And which his death with light'ning rent. 



THE EPIPHANY. 

Jesus, prophet, priest and king, 
To thy feet the Magi bring 
Gold and frankincense and myrrh, 
Guided by the heav'nly star. 

Rachel weeping and in pain, 
For her babes by Herod slain ; 
All announce the great event, 
The birth of one from heav'n sent. 

Behold him a little child 
Circumcised though free from guile ; 
Angels always watching near, 
Name him Jesus, Saviour dear. 

To the Baptist he did go, 
At the river Jordan lo ! 
The spirit flew like a dove, 
Resting on him from above. 



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A voice was heard from the sky, 
Manifesting from on high, 
That God's own beloved Son, 
His first work on earth had done. 

Light in triple hue descends, 
Threefold blessings man attends ; 
When we walk, as in God's sight, 
The dove will on us alight. 



THOUGHTS ON GOOD FKIDAY. 

See the Saviour bound and led 
To an earthly judgment seat ; 

There to hear his sentence read, 
False accusers there to meet. 

Judas, his disciple had 

For his idol him betray 'd; 
Now, we see him very sad, 

For the snare which he had laid. 

Jesus always gentle, mild, 
Answers not a single word ; 

That great crowd, though almost wild, 
Have no word against him heard. 

All they can accuse him of, 
That he said he was their King ; 

So for this they rail and scoff, 
And their insults at him fling. 

On his brow a crown of thorns, 
In his hand they put a reed, 

Then they take him to be scourg'd ; 
Yes, and glory in the deed. 



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With one loud and piercing cry, 

His Spirit he yielded up ; 
Sinners think upon that sigh, 

And that dreadful bitter cup. 

'Mid two thieves upon the cross, 

The Saviour's body hung ; 
O, at what a fearful cost, 

Redemption's work was done. 

Darkness suddenly appear'd, 

The veil of the temple rent; 
Man's heart must indeed be sear'd, 

If such love is vainly spent. 

With no selfish end to gain, 

Unlike any other man ; 
Died to wash away sin's stain, 

Look and all " Behold the Lamb," 

Who has bruis'd the serpent's head, 
Brought both peace and truth to light, 

For our souls his blood he shed, 

From the grave return'd with might. 

Was he not the greatest King 
That the earth has ever seen ; 

Should we not together sing, 
Come again, thou glorious beam. 

Come with all thy pow'r divine, 
And gather thy scatter'd flock, 

With thy arms our souls entwine, 
At our hearts, Lord quickly knock. 



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OIST OUE LENTEN AND OTHER FASTS. 

All have some peculiar way 
In which they bid yon fast and pray, 
The Jews did both these things perform,. 
At stated times they all did mourn. 

Samuel did a fast ordain 

When going forth the ark to claim. 

And offer'd, for a sacrifice, 

A lamb, whose incense did arisen 

And reach'd Jehovah's mighty throne,. 
Which in thunderings he made known ; 
He then the Philistines did smite, 
Discomfited, and put" to flight. 

Even Xing Ahab, it does say, 
Once mourn' d in sackcloth and did pray 
That God would him in mercy spare, 
And God acceded to his prayer. 

Ezra, too, does with fasting plead, 
And God did to his wish accede, 
He led him safely through the land 
Where danger lurk'd on ev'ry hand. 

When Nehemiah did desire 
The Jewish people to inspire 
With courage, to rebuild their walls,. 
With fasting on his knees he falls. 

A gracious answer God did send, 

The people did to him attend, 

And round the city did appear 

The walls, which he work'd hard to rear. 






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The King of Nineveh, when sad, 

In sackcloth did his people clad, 

They mourn'd, they fasted, and they pray r d, 

And the destroying angel stay'd. 

Priests, ministers, and elders, all 

Joel did gather at his call, 

A fast he then did sanctify, — 

From God's own house they sent their cry. 

But fasting may be made a snare, 
Isaiah says of this beware. 
If done with strife or with debate, 
With sin such fasting will checkmate. 

Christians, we have much to fear, 
For it is really plain and clear 
That we in concert never fast, 
IsTor are our prayers in one mould cast. 

Five feasts the Jewish people held, 
Or from communion were expell'd ; 
~No such rules do Christians mind, 
So Satan scores of them do bind. 

It thus behoves us all to see 
The reasons why we disagree, 
Together we must sift our creeds 
Ere they are chok'd with Satan's weeds. 

The tares, now sown among the wheat, 
"We must tread down beneath our feet ; 
All pride and prejudice must bend, 
Our ways and works we must amend. 

€k)d r s truth will plainly then appear, 
His voice again we all shall hear, 
The chaff will quickly fly away 
When Christians all together pray. 



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Christ said himself lie was the way, 
Truth he did faithfully portray ; 
"When his example does us guide 
From virtue we Will never slide. 

First, see him as a little child — 
Obedient, loving, meek and mild, 
In wisdom he did daily grow, 
Which he afterwards did show. 

At twelve years old he did men teach 
To use the means within their reach, 
For see him at the Jewish feast, 
Preparing for the work of Priest. 

For seventeen or eighteen years 
No record of his life appears, 
P'raps, in the quiet of his home, 
He like a star of beauty shone. 

When nearly thirty years of age 
In his great work he does engage, — 
To carry out God's great design 
His body he did then resign. 

We first perceive he was baptiz'd, 
Though he before was circumcis'd, 
The spirit on him like a dove, 
Show'd a father's special love. 

The Baptist said he was the Lamb, 
The one great substitute for man, 
Completely pure and free from guile, 
No spot or blemish did defile. 

Then see the Tempter plied his arts, 
And tried to pierce him with his darts, 
When in the desert weary, lone, 
He his long fasting did make known. 



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Like Moses and Elias, he 

For forty days did fast, we see, 

This is the origin of Lent, 

Why then should some from it dissent. 

It must be the various ways 
Christians keep these forty days, 
Have made it one of Satan's snares, 
His harvest time for sowing tares. 

Christ bid us heed no vain command, 
His word to hear and understand, 
Not that which goeth in denies, 
But that which cometh out beguiles. 

All evil from the heart proceeds, 
That is the source of wicked deeds ; 
Both fish and flesh life will sustain 
When truth flows freely through each vein. 

We cannot fast when we eat fish 
For it is quite a dainty dish, 
Besides, the multitude Christ fed 
With bread and fish, St. Matthew said ; 

Lest fasting they should faint away, 
As they did journey on the way ; 
Christ, like a kind and thoughtful friend, 
From unseen dangers did defend. 

He knew well ere they reached their homes 
Satan would feed them with his stones, 
If hungry they from him did go 
Surrounded they would be with woe. 

The Esquimaux on fish subsist, 
Without it how can they exist ? 
If eating fish is call'd a fast 
Their fasting days for ever last. 



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No rules for fasting do we find 
In Holy Writ for us combined, 
Our blessed Lord's example though 
Its great necessity does show. 

To keep our bodies in control, 
To fix our thoughts upon the soul, 
From earthly trifles to retire, 
And gather up some Holy Fire. 

Each one knows best the tempting thing 

That daily leads him on to sin, 

If it for forty days we curb, 

The still small voice would so disturb — 

That Satan would relax his hold, 
And we could drive him from the fold, 
The Bride, her jewels would display, 
For we would walk in wisdom's way. 

When we keep fast days as we should 
God will give us heavenly food, 
Such as the Jews for forty years 
Did gather daily it appears. 

Their murmurings and discontent 
Its hidden virtue did prevent — 
From shedding all its light around, 
It only sparkled on the ground. 

But when we all united try 
Our souls to feed from God on high, 
The golden manna God will show'r, 
And Christ will come again with pow'r. 

As the Messiah, King of kings, 
He comes with healing in his wings ; 
Then those on earth will reappear 
Whose worship was to him sincere 



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Who Satan never did betray 
Their homage to his gold to pay ; 
But, with the blessings God did give, 
Taught other people how to live. 

Our fasting days will then bear fruit, 
And angels will our ranks recruit ; 
New joys will then our souls entrance, 
Our minds with knowledge will advance. 

Nations of every shade and hue 
Will give to God what is his due ; 
Man then will cease to be perverse, 
And God will from us take the curse. 



THE TEANSFIGUEATION. 

Jesus, Peter, James and John, 
Went upon a mountain high, 

Jesus' face shone as the sun, 
Transfigur'd before their eye. 

With him other two were seen, 

Moses and Elias call'd ; 
What a wondrous, dazzling scene ; 

But still they were not appall'd. 

Their appearance seems to say, 

In him the Messiah see, 
We rejoice to see his day, 

For he soon will set us free. . 

Peter always earnest spake, 

Thought the place they must revere 
Ask'd to be allow'd to make, 

Tabernacles three. Lo ! Hear 



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A voice suddenly disturbs 

Them from this, their great design, 
They are startled by the words : 

This beloved Son is mine. 

The Shekinah then was seen, 

Drawing them beneath his wing ; 

Giving forth a little gleam, 
Of the great and mighty king. 

For whose glory they should use, 
All their energy and skill ; 

Human idols all refuse, 
And alone perform his will. 

Not build tabernacles three ; 

But unite, and all in one, 
To Jehovah bend the knee, 

With the Spirit through the Son. 



MASK- XIII. 

Andrew, Peter, James and John 

Asked Jesus for a sign, 
Which they could depend upon, 

And that all might know the time 

When the temple would be chang'd, 
When its grandeur all would fade ; 

All its very stones derang'd, 
As he then to them had said. 

Take heed and let none deceive, 
Many in my name shall come ; 

And some work they will achieve 
Before evil's race is run. 

Famine, earthquakes, trouble, war, 
Must needs be before the end ; 

Christian sorrows near and far, 
These events will all portend. 



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That Christ's second advent's near, 
In the clouds with glory great, 

Suddenly he will appear, 
His elect to reinstate. 

That day and hour none doth know, 
'Tis the great Creator's will, 

That his creatures here below, 
Must first, all his work fulfil. 

'Till then we must watch and pray ; 

Keeping faithful to the end, 
Making Christ our hope and stay, 

Loving him, the sinner's friend. 



THE SPIRIT LAND. 

Three days Christ with the spirit dwelt, 
When his work on earth was done, 

What joy the Fathers must have felt 
When their spirits saw God's Son. 

St. Peter tells us that Christ preach'd 
To them in their prison gates ; 

He does not say that he could reach 
Beyond to a future state. 

Nothing but pow'r divine could soar 

To that far off spirit-land ; 
Unreach'd by any human lore, 

Or chang'd by a priestly hand. 

The sting of Death Christ did destroy, 
Its gates he will soon unchain ; 

Then saints and prophets he'll employ, 
His sacrifice to sustain. 



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When sin is bound and goodness reigns, 

Jerusalem will descend, 
Then earth will no more groan with pain, 

For Babylon's reign will end. 



THE SACRAMENTS. 

A Sacrament, what does it mean, 
Food to strengthen and make clean ; 
To purge from sin and make quite -whole, 
Not the body, but the soul. 

On this great point men now contend, 
All do their belief defend, 
With what they find in Holy Writ, 
Which in pieces must be split. 

For some say that there are but two, 
Some insist you seven should do ; 
Others allow there maybe three, 
Search, and five you there shall see. 

Five means whereby our souls may feed, 
All which to the altar lead ; 
The place where once Jehovah dwelt, 
Where the Jewish people knelt. 

All the five books that Moses wrote, 
And which all do read and quote ; 
Teach that our Maker did provide, 
Food for body, soul and mind. 

Five animals did Abram slay, 
Upon that eventful day ; 
When the Lord met him in disguise, 
To accept his sacrifice 



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He with him then a cov'nant seal'd, 
To his spirit then reveal'd ; 
Blessings his seed should yet acquire, 
Signing it with Holy Fire. 

This Abram did such faith display, 
That the Lord again did say ; 
All nations shall through thee be bless'd, 
Thus he this to him exprest. 

Then, we are told in after years, 
The Lord once more to him appears ; 
His former covenant renew'd, 
With new grace this man endu'd. 

Which grace to all his seed would flow, 
If their faith they all did show, 
By circumcising every male. 
Still this custom does prevail 

Among the Jews who claim to be, 
Abram' s sole posterity ; 
But Christians also this may claim, 
Though their faith has chang'd their name. 

'Tis true, they do not circumcise, 
But instead, they do baptize ; 
From this old law Christ set us free, 
With his perfect purity. 

It may be, both of these may trace 
Their various means of grace 
To the two sons, who once did cheer 
Abram in his s ojourn here. 

Both of these lads their God did fear, 
And his angel's voice did hear, 
Promising blessings on their seed, 
Manifold, and great indeed. 



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Isaac, Abraham's son and heir, 
To bless Esau did prepare ; 
When Jacob, by his mother told, 
His poor brother Esau sold. 

On account of Eebekah's sin, 
Jacob did the birthright win ; 
But Esau's sons will yet embrace 
Much more perfect means of grace. 

For his mother's deceitful sway 
Open'd to Esau's sons the way 
To be earth's great beacon light, 
And regain their lost birthright. 

When at the cross they lowly bend, 
The great strife on earth will end ; 
Our yoke of sin will quickly fall, 
When Christ is our all in all. 

Then, producing a perfect ark, 

Lit up with a heavenly spark ; 

The grapes that Christ on earth did plant, 

Will together sing and chant. 

And with five sacramental cords, 

Will await the Lord of lords ; 

For his miracles all do show, 

His great love through them must flow. 

Five virgins in the days of old, 
Sybils call'd, of Christ foretold ; 
These prophesied that he was near, 
As they said he did appear. 

Christ was the long expected star, 
Who with Satan did wage war ; 
The battle which he did proclaim, 
Christians ever since maintain. 



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A sword, he said, he with him brought, 
Which he, his disciples taught ; 
Would all the ties of home divide, 
Discord spread on ev'ry side. 

Blood from his side, his hands, his feet, 
Made his sacrifice complete; 
Five were the wounds Christ did endure, 
The disease of sin to cure. 

A type each wound must surely be, 
On this point we must agree ; 
Five means of grace we must embrace, 
Ere we christianise the race. 

When Christians altogether cleave, 
Miracles they will achieve ; 
Bethesdas' waters then will heal, 
Christ their virtues will reveal. 

Through its five porches all the meek 
Proper remedies will seek, 
And those who now are deaf and blind, 
Sight and hearing both will find. 

We will not then be forc'd to wait, 
Or recline at mercy's gate, 
The Sun of Righteousness will shine, 
Proving that he is Divine. 

Five loaves of bread did Jesus take, 
And among five thousand break, 
Enough they had, and some to spare, 
Fragments, we are told there were. 

Two fishes with the bread they ate, 
Emblem of the life we get, 
When at the altar we do kneel, 
And our faith with works do seal. 



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Five virgins with five lamps of oil, 
Well prepar'd with care and toil, 
The Bridegroom when he comes to meet, 
By his side will take their seat. 

First, with water Christian born, 
Virtues graces to adorn ; 
The sponsor vows in infant's name, 
To avoid both sin and shame. 

"When the child has reach'd his teens, 
He should use himself the means 
For taking up those vows again, 
Using ev'ry link of chain 

That binds us to the Christian name, 
Keeps alive the holy flame : 
We then may drink the bread and wine, 
Fountain of the living vine. 

With Christ's blood new life is giv'n, 
To destroy all sin and leaven ; 
Our souls renew'd with heav'nly grace, 
Joy and happiness will taste. 

Then, when Adam his Eve does find, 
God's own sacrament will bind ; 
Great blessings will on them descend, 
Love will ev'ry home attend. 

Then all those foolish, flirting ways, 
In which people pass their days, 
Will not, as now, engender strife, 
Poisoning the joys of life. 

Money will not be so ador'd, 
Minds with other wealth be stor'd ; 
The golden rays our God will send, 
Will our thoughts and ways amend. 



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Life will then, as before the flood, 
Yield a stronger, purer blood ; 
Hundreds of years will find us bright, 
Ears not deaf, nor dull our sight. 

All the priests who perform these rites, 
Will be pure and clothed in white , 
The breast-plate then again will show 
Twelve bright jewels in a row. 

When taking ordination vows, 
Bishop's hands upon their brows, 
The glory of the Lord will shine, 
And around these jewels twine. 

Then God will us absolve from sin, 
Making us quite pure within ; 
His presence will our path surround, 
And Heav'n will on earth be found. 



ACTS XVII. 18. 

When Paul in the midst of Mars' Hill did stand, 
The people of Athens to reprimand, 
An altar to the unknown God he found, 
And ignorant worshippers all around. 

These were a people who thought themselves wise, 
And gaily, embark'd with great enterprise 
In all worldly schemes their country to raise ; 
But Paul found it hard to teach them God's ways. 

He reason'd and argued, they only mock'd, 
What, part with their idols ! this was a shock ; 
They call'd him a babbler, and thought him mad, — 
In a vision the Lord said, be not sad, 



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And hold not thy peace, for I am with thee, 
Bat take courage poor soul and patient be, 
Some of my people this city contains, 
Whose love for me freely flows through their veins. 

When all selfish thoughts they begin to crush, 
And all evil transactions from them thrust, 
Their spiritual eyesight will return, 
And right from wrong they will plainly discern. 



THE ST. PATRICK. 

One of the Allen Steamers as seen May, 1873, when she keeled over 
in the Dock. 

A vessel on her side we see, 

St. Patrick is her name, 
She in a moment over-keeled 

And a sad wreck became. 

Many times she the Ocean crossed, 

With safety and with pride, 
The tempest often did her toss, 

Still bravely did she glide. 

But yet within the harbor docks 

When ready all to sail, 
The rudder all their efforts mocks 

Until she meets the gale. 

Then water masters gains control, 

Her cargo melts away, 
Divers are sought to close all holes, 

And fill with tow each stay. 

Three engines fast to her are made, 

Much water out they pump, 
But still St. Patrick firm is staid, 

She rests where first she sunk. 



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When first the steamer fell, the mast 
With stick across did keep, 

Until they tied and made her fast, 
Where now she seems to sleep. 

The Christian Church must now awake 

And trim her sails anew, 
For God's own spirit soon will rake 

And influence the Jew 

To open out his Temple Gate, 
And plant within the Cross, 

Christians then will find it late, 
To clear away the dross, 

And make it Christ-like to behold, 

Cemented well with love, 
Containing nought but purest gold 

And gentle cooing doves. 

It should be like a beacon light, 

Emitting such a blaze, 
That all must keep it in their sight, 

And feel its piercing rays. 

All there should find good Holy Oil, 
Themselves the lamps to fill, 

The Tempter's Arts we then should foil, 
And do our Maker's will. 

It is so much divided now, 

The rudder cannot work, 
So when the Jew begins to plough, 

And wakens up the Turk, 

She will I fear receive a shock, 

Which will her paralyse, 
And will, just like this ship in dock, 

Sink down before our eyes. 



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THIS SCROLL 

IS ADDRESSED TO THE 

ARCHIBISHOP OF SYRA AND TENOS, 

Most Illustrious Patriarch. 

This letter which I once addressed you on Chris- 
tian unity I am about to array in new and more 
costly robes, and to entwine around it others which 
at various times the Holy Spirit has moved me to 
write. In its new and improved condition I trust 
that it may be the means of inducing your branch of 
the Christian Church to have a careful investigation 
of its leading doctrines, and if when well weighed in 
a just balance they are found wanting, to make an 
effort to regain the treasures lost, that instead of 
protesting against each other, as Christians have been 
doing for centuries, we may become such a united 
tower of strength that all the Devil's schemes will 
fall before our great uplifted arm. Nothing but this 
can stay the growth of infidelity, which is spreading 
itself like the fangs of a great cancer all through 
the earth. 

The greatest sin of the world in the present day 
seems to be a want of knowledge of the person and 
work of the Holy Spirit. How little is the creed of 
St. Athanasius understood! men talk of the great 
advancement that this age has made in civilization, 
but, alas ! has either Synod or Council, lately met, 



produced anything in any way to compete with it ? 
A great part of mankind seems to understand the 
great work of God the Son, but few, very few, ever 
consider the patience, long suffering and ever active 
work of God the Holy Ghost ; but as St. Mark has 
warned us, that to blaspheme against the Holy Ghost 
has never forgiveness, it behoves us well to consider 
the work of the Spirit of God, which alone enables 
us to contend with the Evil Spirit ; God the Father 
made the world and man, and pronounced it a finish- 
ed work ; God the Son redeemed the whole human 
race, with the price of blood — this is also a finished 
work — but God the Holy Ghost's work is a progres- 
sive work, it is to continue till at last man, through 
his influence, will become the pure and holy being he 
was made at first. As soon as man strives to be holy, 
those thousand years will begin which are spoken of in 
the 20th chapter of Eevelations, for it is evident, that 
the time spoken of there, is a time when goodness is 
to abound on the earth, and to restore it to its original 
beauty. David's prayer in Psalm li. 2, u And take 
not thy Holy Spirit from me," shews us that David 
found himself unable to contend with the powers of 
darkness without the Divine aid. Isaiah says, " But 
they rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit." " Where 
is he that put his holy spirit within him ? " — lxiii. 
10, 11. These passages shew that God's Holy Spirit 
is a person engaged in a warfare with the Evil Spirit. 
Turning to the New Testament St. Luke tells us xi. 
13, "How much more shall your Heavenly Father 
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." Ephes. 
i. 13, " In whom also after that ye believed ye were 
sealed with that Holy Spirit of Promise." Eph. iv. 
30 warns us " Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God." 
1st Thes. iv. 8, " Who hath also given unto us his Holy 
Spirit." These passages, three from the Old, and 
four from the New Testament, prove the beautiful 






words of the creed, u the Godhead of the Father, of 
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one, the glory- 
equal, the Majesty co-eternal." 

God the Holy Ghost is speaking to man now in 
fire, wind, earthquakes, pestilence and war, implor- 
ing them to worship and serve the great Creator and 
to become temples fit for the habitation of the Holy 
Spirit. God the Father gave man ten command- 
ments, and sent priests and prophets to teach men 
how to keep them, but as these all failed to keep 
them themselves, God sent his own Son to shew the 
world, by a practical life, the beauty of holiness, and 
by his death to ransom the souls of those who, through 
the help of God's Holy Spirit, overcame the world. 

God has made seven promises to those that over- 
come the temptations of the Evil one in the world. 
1. " To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the 
Tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of 
God."— Rev. ii. 7. The one that eats of that tree 
will never die, for we are told in Gen. iii. 22, that 
Adam was driven out of Paradise to prevent him 
from eating of this tree which would enable him to 
live for ever. 2nd. tl He that overcometh shall not 
be hurt of the second death." He who has the 
privilege of living on this earth with a glorified body 
when the Holy Spirit reigns as King will also rise to 
glory when Christ comes as a judge. 3rd. " To him 
that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden 
manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the 
stone a new name written which no man know- 
eth saving he that receiveth it." — Rev. ii. 17. 4th. 
" He that overcometh and keepeth my words unto 
the end to him will I give power over the nations." — 
Ibid. 26th verse. 5th. " He that overcometh the 
same shall be clothed in white raiment, and I will 
not blot out his name out of the Book of Life, but I 
will confess his name before my Father, and before 



his Angels. — Eev. iii. 5. 6th. " Him that overcometh 
will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God : and 
he shall go no more out : and I will write upon him 
the name of my God and the name of the city of my 
God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down 
out of heaven from my God ; and I will write upon him 
my new name." — Rev. iii. 12. 7th. " Him that over- 
cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even 
as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in 
his throne." — iii. 21. And besides all this the 21st Eev., 
7th verse, says, " He that overcometh shall inherit 
all things, and I will be his God and he shall be my 
Son." 

0, could man but recognize the blessings which are 
in store for those that resist the Devil, and his 
temptations, the state to which they would restore 
the world, if there was one united effort to become 
practically good, not as it is now, to be very careful 
to keep one or two of the commandments because 
man's laws would expose and punish them if they 
break them, but to keep God's day holy out of love, 
reverence and fear to the Great and Almighty God, 
and then to act towards man after the example of 
our blessed Saviour, would make this earth a heaven 
below. God never gave commandments that man 
had not the power to obey ; with these commands 
God gave man his Holy Spirit to keep him in the 
path of peace and holiness. Baruch says in his 
Epistle to Jeremy, vi. ch., 60 verse, that sun, moon, 
and stars being bright and sent to do their offices are 
obedient, and man alone defies and disobeys his Maker 
and Creator. 

Before giving these commandments God gave to 
Abraham two sacraments, as means through which 
spiritual life should be planted, and cherished as it 
were in the heart of man; " and Melchizedech, king 
of Salem, brought forth bread and wine : and he was 






the priest of the most High God, and he blessed 
Abraham." — G-en. xiv. 18. St. Paul tells us in Heb. 
vii. that this priest had three names, King of Eight- 
eousness, King of Salem and King of Peace, thus 
teaching Abraham that the God that made, would 
redeem and glorify a people for himself, who after 
living on this earth with a glorified body, will become 
Angels, filling the place of those who had fallen from 
their first estate. Three chapters after we read of 
the Lord appearing to Abraham and saying, " I am 
the Almighty God ; walk before me and be thou 
perfect." Then God established his covenant of 
circumcision with his faithful Abraham. Thus we 
see the first thing God gave man after the flood was 
two sacraments, renewing as it were, the seed of 
goodness in the heart of man and preparing it for 
the law which he afterwards gave by the hands of 
his servant Moses. 

Now let us look at the practical way in which our 
Saviour fulfilled the will of God. When eight days 
of his life were accomplished Luke tells us in ii. 21, 
that he was circumcised, and his name Jesus given. 
Matthew mentions the name, but seems to think it 
unnecessary to speak of the act of circumcision, 
thinking, perhaps, that none could doubt it, but gives 
us instead two names, one for his divine nature, which 
is Emanuel, or " God with us," and one for his human, 
nature, which is Jesus, by being circumcised after 
the law and humbly submitting to all things necessary 
to our salvation. He fulfilled the prophecy in Isaiah 
xlii. 21, "He will magnify the law and make it 
honorable." Could he have magnified it unless he 
had submitted to it ? No ; in being circumcised he 
did magnify it. But as Christ took all our sins upon 
him, and bore all our pains, so he instituted in place 
of circumcision, baptism, which is as binding on the 
Christian as circumcision was on the Jew. A Jew 



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was not a Jew unless he was circumcised. A Chris- 
tian is not a Christian till he is baptized. No stran- 
ger could keep the passover unless he had been 
circumcised — Ex. xii. 48 — so no Christian can go to 
the Lord's table unless he has been baptized, for as 
soon as the Jews believed on Christ they were bap- 
tized. John was circumcised before Christ, Luke i. 
59. His baptism is not mentioned, but he is called 
the Baptist, which evidently means more than is 
expressed. John seems to have expected that Christ's 
Baptism would have had a much more powerful 
effect, and been altogether different from his; but 
Christ, to make it plain to John that he was only 
going to fulfil the law not to change it, submits at 
once to John's Baptism, shewing us, by this act, how 
necessary it was to salvation, and that the power 
that he would give his ministers would enable them 
to make men Christians, to enlist them, as it were, 
under his banner, just as circumcision made them 
Jews. As a general rule Christians do not appreciate 
because they do not know the great privilege of being 
made a member of Christ, of having the seed of a 
power planted within them which will enable them 
successfully to contend with the Spirit of Evil, which 
daily attacks the souls of men. 

To illustrate the subject, without making light of the 
ordinance of baptism, suppose there was any way in 
which people might become members of the Eoyal 
Family of England, and so be made heirs of their 
privileges if they strictly obeyed certain laws. How 
eager all would be to learn the way ! no trouble would 
be spared, no sacrifice thought too great to obtain it. 
But because Christ's kingdom at present is spiritual, 
and so not outwardly visible, our faith is cold and dead. 
There is no doubt that the good rule of baptising chil- 
dren when they are eight days old is the one the 
Christian Church should begin to try and enforce, 



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one who really believes in the ordinance and the 
benefits to be received thereby would not be pained 
by seeing children die without being enrolled among 
Christ's lambs, and people would not be satisfied to 
live a great part of their lives, without availing them- 
selves of so glorious a privilege. In Matt. xx. 23, 
Christ seems to say to the mother of Zebedee's chil- 
dren, while on earth you may have the great privilege 
of being baptized and partaking of my Holy Supper, 
but when I come as King, I will place those on my 
right hand who have loved and obeyed me, but of 
that you can know nothing now. Matt. xix. 13 shews 
that Christ blessed little children and put his hands 
on them. It was not needful that Christ should use 
water, he could give the spirit without the water ; 
but the water, like the Church, is the channel through 
which his grace must flow. When Jesus was baptized 
the Holy Spirit desoended in a visible manner, and a 
voice from heaven declared him to be the Son of God. 
When we are baptized the Holy Spirit descends in an 
invisible manner, seen only through the eye of faith. 
Adam's first act was disobedience ; Christ's first act 
was obedience. Every act of Christ's life shewed forth 
the glory of God, and every act of men's lives is to 
glorify themselves. 

How simple the means that Christ employs for a 
test of our faith ! the Spirit, the water, and the blood, 
the three parts of which man is made, thus teaching 
us that we must give ourselves to God, and live for 
the glory of the One, who is our Creator, Redeemer 
and Sanctifier. The work is his own, he will finish 
it ; he will never leave man as he is, degraded by sin 
and selfishness, but as soon as man puts forth his 
energies to please and serve him, at the same time 
trying to subdue himself, he will become one with 
Christ, and the Holy Spirit will come in person and 
will reign, then will be heard the great voice saying , 

o 



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" the Kingdoms of this world are become the King- 
doms of our Lord and of his Christ. — Rev. xi. 15.. And 
he shall reign forever and ever." 

The Jews had a mercy seat, an altar of incense and 
a table made of wood and covered with gold, on which 
stood twelve cakes of bread with golden dishes and 
spoons, but none but the Priests were allowed to eat of 
it, Exodus xxv. Christ having shed his blood for all, 
commands all to show their faith in him by eating of 
this bread, " Take, eat, this is my body." It was no 
longer to remain in the hands of the priests. The 
twelve apostles were to take it and dispense it to the 
people together with the wine. " Drink ye all of it, 
for this is my blood of the New Testament." The 
Jews had been forbidden to touch blood by God him- 
self, Gen. ix. 4, so that by this command alone he 
shewed the Jews that Divine wrath was satisfied. 
The Lamb was slain, the world was redeemed, now 
priests and people had but to believe and to obey. 
Then there was a candlestick made of pure gold, like 
a pillar with three branches on each side, so that it 
held one lamp on the top, and six lamps on the 
branches, making altogether seven lights, Ex. xxv- 
And in Eev. iv. it says, " There were seven lamps of 
fire burning before the throne, which are the seven 
spirits of God." Besides these four things which be- 
longed to the most Holy place, there was the altar of 
burnt offerings, which was five cubits long, made of 
wood, and overlaid with brass, with shovels, fire-pan Sj 
basins and other vessels belonging to it, Ex. xxvii. 1-5. 
This Altar, like the table of shew bread, is now quite 
useless. " He taketh away the first that he may estab- 
lish the second." " By the which will we are sanctified 
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once 
for all." Heb. x. ir, 1 0. Then there was the laver, a ves- 
sel of brass conteMn/i^ a Jarge quantity of water for 
the priests to wash thfir hands and feet in, when they 



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went to do service in the Tabernacle; these two 
things were kept in the court of the Tabernacle in 
the open sky. The water and burnt offering repre_ 
sent to my mind the outward form or thing signified 
in the two principal sacraments which Christ ordained 
and the light which was within the Holy Place the 
type of the inward and spiritual grace which is 
poured out on those who partake of these sacraments 
in faith. 

One thing mankind would do well to consider : the 
devil did not by his treachery to Adam and Eve suc- 
ceed in destroying the spirit of man. The beautiful 
body with which Adam was clothed received within it 
a poison which caused its death, but the soul, if lost, is 
lost through the pride and self-will of each individual, 
for before he had time to finish his work, God said, 
" I will put enmity between thee and the woman 
between thy seed and her seed," interposing, as it 
were, God's Holy Spirit, in the heart of man, to be a 
sword by which each creature has a power within 
himself, a conscience which warns us when we are 
allowing any temptation to soil our spirit with an 
impure thought or word or action. Well might St. 
Paul exclaim, " O the depth of the riches both of the 
wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable 
are his judgments and his ways past finding out," but 
man must never forget, that though he may overcome 
all the trials and temptations of the world he yet 
needs to be washed in his Saviour's blood. And to 
keep this always in our minds, God gave us another 
sacrament, to nourish and cherish the seed of spiritual 
life sown in the heart at baptism- By the careful and 
constant use of this sacrament, goodness grows as it 
were in the heart of man until he becomes a tree 
planted by the rivers of waters that bringeth forth 
his fruit in his season, — Psalm 1 . And this tree, after 



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it has blossomed here, will be translated to another and 
brighter sphere, never again to shed its leaves, but to 
be arrayed infine linen, pure and white, for the fine 
linen is the righteousness of the Saints. — Eev. xix. 6. 

For the use of these sacraments and for the keep- 
ing of the Law God gave man a Priesthood. Jethro 
was the first human priest mentioned in Scripture r 
but the term priest is first applied in Genesis xiv. 18. 
to Melchizeclex King of Salem, who brought forth 
bread and wine, and instituted spiritually the Lord's 
Supper. The blessing of Abraham seems to have beeif a 
type of our ordination service. St! Paul tells us in Heb. 
vii. 3, that this priest was made like the Son of God, 
that he had neither beginning of days nor end of life, 
thus proving himself to be the Holy Spirit of God - r 
he thus appeared spiritually to teach us that a holy 
man with a good family was a blessing to mankind, 
that such holy living made him fit to teach the world 
that it is God's pleasure that the world should worship 
him first, individually; secondly, that divided into 
families, they should worship him collectively ; and 
thirdly, that these families should form a church and 
worship him in a body in spirit and in truth. Now y 
let me implore you to try every doctrine of the faith 
of your branch of the Christian Church by the Word 
of God, and to induce the ether churches to do th e 
same, that all may become one candlestick, whosa 
bright and powerful light will draw all men unto it, 
bringing them to the knowledge and love of the true 
God, and the temple which was rent in twain at the 
Saviour's death will be cemented by the cords of love. 
Peace and holiness will dwell in every heart, and this 
world will become a Paradise such as Eden was when 
Adam was placed in it to dress and keep it. 

Let us examine and trace the genealogy of the 
earthly Priesthood. The Priest of Midian, whose 
name was Reuel, was the son of Bashemath, the wife 



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of Esau. — Gen. xxxvi. 10. Bashemath was one of the 
daughters of Heth, Gen. xxvii. 46, and Heth, we 
know, was the son of Canaan, x. 15. So the first 
priest was descended from the Canaanites. The next 
thing we know of the Priesthood is that the Levites 
were set apart for that office. Levi had three sons, 
Gershom, Kohath, and Merari ; Amram was Kohath's 
eldest son, and he married his father's sister, who was 
the mother of Moses and Aaron, so that they were 
Levites, and Moses married the daughter of Reuel, 
the priest of Midian, who, I have shown you, was a 
Canaanite. Aaron the High Priest married Elisheba, 
whose genealogy is not given, except that she was the 
daughter of Aminadab. — Ex. vi. 23. Aaron had four 
sons, who were all priests ; two of these offered strange 
fire before the Lord, and they were killed by fire 
from Heaven, Lev. x. 2. These four priests are now 
represented in the world by four religions, all of 
whom have priests. Do none of them offer strange 
fire before the Lord ? it certainly behoves us to see 
what sort of fire we are offering. Had it been a 
purifying fire, the result would be such as God re- 
quires. Instead of that, when we review the subject, 
it is evident that God's first great design, which was 
frustrated by the poison inserted by the devil, was 
that man should live on this earth, and rule over 
every living creature and thing which God created in 
an innocent and happy state. Has this end yet been 
attained ? Has this earth yet become the kingdom 
of our Lord ? Has God's promise to Abraham that 
" all nations of the earth shall be blessed" yet been 
fulfilled ? if not, may we not hope that God's Holy 
Spirit will fulfil all this ? I have shewn you that as 
soon as the poison was inserted God gave man a con- 
science to teach him how he could recover his happy 
state. When men failed to listen to this still small 
voice, the flood swept them away. Then the patriar- 



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chal age commenced, and with it, faith in the coming 
Saviour ; the Jews were certainly God's chosen people r 
but why ? because they alone, of all the dwellers upon 
earth, knew the Lord. In the family of Abraham the 
priesthood had its origin. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 
are types, as it were, of the three orders of ministers ; 
but in those days people worshipped the Sun, for we 
read of Joseph marrying Asenath, the daughter of 
Potipherah, the priest of On, Gen. xli, 45, so that it 
is clear that the reason why God loved the Jews was 
because in the midst of idolatry they loved and wor- 
shipped him alone. Then God gave man a written 
law which is called the beginning of the Levitical age, 
which had its beginning at Mount Sinai, and was en- 
trusted to the High Priest, Priest and Levite ; and 
which ended in the awful crucifixion and death of the 
Son of God ; and we, having had the benefit of all 
these privileges, now live under the dispensation of 
Grace. 

The redemption and glorification of this world was 
the ground work of the Faith of all the Old Testament 
Saints. Adam beheld it like a star over his dark 
future. Abraham looked for a " city which hath 
foundation whose builder and maker is God." Job 
says "yet in my flesh shall I see God," and looked 
for the time when " His flesh shall be fresher than 
a child, he shall return to the days of his youth." 
David and the four great Prophets describe its future 
glory. Our blessed Lord and his Apostles shewed by 
their lives and doctrines the character of those which 
would realize their fulfilment. How is it that though 
nineteen centuries have nearly passed since the world 
was redeemed, it has not yet become glorified ? It 
must be the want of unity among Christians which 
prevents mankind from having on the whole armour 
of God, which alone enables him to fight with the 
devil and prevail against him, which he can do, for 



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Christ has said, " If a man keep my sayings he shall 
never see death." "A little while and ye shall not see 
me, and again a little while and ye shall see me." 
" I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the 
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the 
evil/' 

Observe that the serpent has appeared to man in 
three forms, first as the serpent when he poisoned 
the beautiful creature God made; then as Satan, 
under which name he is said to have resisted David, 
Job, and Joshua, and to stand at the right hand of 
all who do wickedly. — Psalm cix. But it was as the 
devil that he tempted our Saviour. It seems as if it 
was then that he first came on earth as a man, and 
though we are told that he is to leave the earth for a 
time, that is, that he is to be chained, for in Rev. xx. 
it says that the serpent, the devil, and Satan, the 
three in one, will be bound and cast into the bottom- 
less pit for a thousand years. Yet the wickedness of 
the world at present makes it evident that the tempter, 
the accuser and the deceiver are still here. — " As a 
roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may 
devour, 1st Peter v. 8, and will continue till the 
Holy Spirit comes to reign on earth. Many times 
in the Old Testament the people are said to sacrifice 
to devils, Lev. xvii. 7 ; Deut. xxxii. 17 ; Psalm cvi. 37, 
and in II Chronicles xi., 15, we are told that Jeroboam 
ordained him Priests for the high places and for the 
devils. Thus we see that every thing that God has 
done for the salvation of man, the devil has done to 
destroy him. God gave Priests, the devil did so too; 
when Christ appeared spiritually, the devil did so 
too ; when Christ came as a man, the devil clothed 
himself as a man and appeared on earth. But Christ 
ascended up to heaven and desired his followers to 
shew their faith by their works. The devil sets up 
an idol, the world falls down and worships it. Man 



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was never made to spend his whole life in the pursuit 
of gold, and yet from youth to age the one thought 
of men's lives is how shall I make money ? "When 
made, how invest it; when invested, how shall I 
spend it to the most advantage for this perishing 
body. They hoard it, they worship it, it is the idol 
of men's hearts. Like the image that Nebuchad- 
nezzar set up, it must be shattered when the stone 
becomes a great mountain, and fills the whole earth, 
it will break it to pieces. 

Let us look now into the ancient names in the 
Bible for places set apart for the worship of God. In 
Exodus xxv. 8, we are told G-od said to Moses, " Let 
the in make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among 
them according to all that I shew thee after the 
pattern of the Tabernacle." Before this God seemed 
to have made a place for himself, for in Ex. xv. 17, 
" In the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for 
thee to dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy 
hands have established," and Hebrews viii. 2, says, 
" A minister of the sanctuary and of the true taber- 
nacle which the Lord pitched and not man." Joshua, 
just before his death, wrote " in the book of the law of 
God, and took a great stone and set it up there under 
an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord," xxiv. 
26. God promised Moses that " the tabernacle shall be 
sanctified by my glory. I will sanctify the taber- 
nacle of the congregation and the altar. I will 
sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to 
me in the Priest's office." Samuel is the first that 
calls the tabernacle a temple, 1st Saml. i. 9, so that, 
with prophecy, the name temple seems to have 
originated. But Solomon was the one chosen to 
build a temple for the sanctuary, " Take heed now, 
for the Lord hath chosen thee to build an house for 
the Sanctuary, be strong and do it." — 1 Chronicles 
xxviii. 10. The tabernacle was moveable ; the tern- 



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pie was immoveable. But, when we read of the 
nineteen wicked kings that reigned over Israel, after 
they were separated from Judah, and of the idols 
they set up, we are not surprised that God allowed 
the temple to be destroyed. Of the twenty kings 
that reigned over Judah, a few were very religious, 
some very wicked, and others of an indifferent and 
mixed character, but so little effect had Solomon's 
teaching had that in the fifth year of Rehoboam's 
reign, Shishak, king of Egypt, plundered the temple 
and the king's house,so soon was it necessary to punish 
them for their idolatry, which sin seems to have 
gradually increased among them. Once, indeed, in 
Hezekiah's reign, we read that many out of several 
tribes came to the Passover, so that " there was great 
joy in Jerusalem, for since the time of Solomon, the 
son of David, king of Israel, there was not the like 
in Jerusalem." — 2 Ohro. xxx. 26. Then the good king 
Josiah repaired the temple and restored the worship 
of God, and finding a book of the law of the Lord by 
Moses, he rent his clothes to think how little the law 
had been observed. — 2 Chron. xxxiv. 19. In Chap- 
ter xxxv. 18, we are told the Passover that Josiah 
kept in his reign was even better than king Solomon's, 
because it was more in conformity to the rules 
appointed by Moses. In the words of Scripture, 
" There was no Passover like to that kept in Israel 
from the days of Samuel the prophet, neither did all 
the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah 
kept and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah 
and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem." But sad, to say he met his death from 
disobedience, he went to fight with the king of Israel 
without the direction of God, and was slain. 
. After his death, the Jews grew more and more 
wicked till at last the king of Babylon burnt the 
temple of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all 



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the houses in Jerusalem, carrying away all the 
vessels of gold, silver and brass, that belonged to the 
temple. Then, according to the prophecy of Jere- 
miah, the land was, in some measure, desolate seventy 
years. (Jer. xxv. 11, 12), until Gyrus, after he took 
Babylon, gave them leave to rebuild the temple, and 
restored the vessels of gold and silver to Sheshbazzar, 
the Prince of Judah, to the number of five thousand 
four hundred. Ezra i. 11. Thus fulfilling the pro- 
phecy made by Isaiah above a hundred years before 
that saith of Cyrus, " He is my shepherd and shall 
perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, 
thou shalt be built ; and to the temple, thy foundation 
shall be laid." 

When they commenced to build the second temple 
we are told by Ezra " that some of the Jews offered 
freely for the house of the Lord 61000 drams of gold, 
5000 pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' gar- 
ments, Ezra ii. 69 ; but still they never expected to 
build a temple in any way equal to Solomon's. There 
were five things wanting to make it as perfect as 
Solomon's : 1st, the tables of stone on which the law 
was written, which were in the ark when it was 
brought into his temple; 2nd the *Shekinah or 
divine presence in a cloud of glory on the mercy 
seat. 3rd, the TJrim and Thummin, whence the 
oracle came, or divine answers to their inquiries ; 4th, 
the holy fire upon the altar, which came from heaven, 
and 5th, the spirit of prophecy, for though Haggai, 



* The word Shekinah means, as used in Jewish history, that 
miraculous light or visible glory which was a symbol of the 
Divine presence ; it comes from shaken, to inhabit. The covering 
of the Ark was called the Mercy Seat, because God dwelt between 
the Cherubs in a body of light, Ex. xxv. 22. I will commune with 
thee from above the Mercy Seat, Lev. xvi. 2. For I will appear in 
the cloud upon the Mercy Seat. We heard the voice of one speak- 
to him from off the Mercy Seat, Num. vii. 89. 



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Zachariah, and Malachi lived while the second temple 
was building, and prophecied after it was built, yet 
on their death, the prophetic spirit ceased from 
among them. After many hindrances, and twenty 
years of toil, the Jews again worshipped God in a 
temple in Jerusalem; and then Nehemiah the Jew 
built again the city of Jerusalem. St. Paul speaks 
of the tabernacle and sanctuary as things past, and 
tells us that the bodies of beasts for sacrifice were 
burnt without the camp, but the blood was brought 
into the sanctuary. Now, Jesus having shed his 
blood for the sins of the whole world, there seems 
no further need of a sanctuary ; the Holy Spirit now 
reigns in every heart that is washed in Christ's blood. 
But as the sanctuaries were all attached to a temple, 
so every Christian must be a living member of the 
church or temple of God,if he wishes to make his heart 
a sanctuary for the Holy Spirit of God. Moses took 
the Tabernacle and put it without the camp, when he 
came from the Mount and found the people guilty of 
idolatry in making a golden calf. Exodus xxxiii. 7. 
But when the great Tabernacle was finished it stood 
within a large space of ground which was called the 
Court of the Tabernacle. Exodus xxvii. 9. 

The word synagogue occurs but once in the Old 
Testament, that is in Psalm lxxiv, where it says, 
" They have burnt up all the synagogues in the 
land." But Christ tells us he taught in the syna- 
gogues, and in Acts xiii. we are told that Barnabas 
and others did the same. The word Church first 
occurs in Mat. xvi. 18, when Christ tells Peter " that 
upon this rock will I build my Church, and the gates 
of hell shall not prevail against it." Peter was of 
so impulsivo a nature that he may at different times 
have sown the seeds of ail the three Churches, which 
with their various branches are now spread all over 
the earth. He erred greatly when he asked to be, 



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allowed to build three churches, so great was the 
fault that it brought a voice from Heaven, but the 
voice did not say that he should not build three 
churches, but only tried to convince him that Christ 
was divine and therefore far superior to Moses and 
Elias. The Devil has divided Christians, but not 
destroyed Christianity. Christ, by his almighty power, 
foresaw the fierce warfare that the Devil would wage 
against it ; how he would sow discord and even hatred 
among Christians ; how some would lean on Peter, 
some on Paul and some on James, but the writer 
believes that the Greek, Roman and Protestant 
Churches (for all Protestant Churches that believe in 
the Trinity are one body, though some of them may 
have a diseased limb or joint out of place, causing 
them to be irritable and divided) will yet be re-united 
by the Holy Spirit of God, and then they will become 
one in faith and practise. Then tabernacles, temples, 
synagogues and churches will all send forth one united 
song of prayer and praise, and the hearts of the 
worshippers will be the sanctuary of our God. 

Before concluding, let us look at the vestments 
about which there has been so much discussion lately. 
The common priests had a vest called an ephod and 
some peculiar garments of fine linen, which they 
used when they ministered in the tabernacle. — 1 
Sam. xxii. 18. But Aaron's garments, we are told in 
the Exodus xxxix., were of blue, purple and scarlet, 
besides the fine linen, verses 1, 27, 41. Indeed the 
High Priest's garments seem to consist of seven 
things, viz : the ephod, breast plate, girdle of curious 
work, robe of the ephod, the embroidered linen coat, 
and the mitre, with the golden plate. — Exod. xxviii. 
The ephod, which was worn by all the priests, was a 
sort of short vest without sleeves, made of fine linen 
with blue, purple and scarlet, interwoven with plates 
and wires of gold — Exodus xxxix. 2, 3, and worn 



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over everything. The breast plate was made of the 
same work as the ephod, of a span square, with twelve 
jewels set in gold ranked in four rows of three each, 
and fastened to the ephod. As God used to make his 
will known to the High Priest by the Urim and 
Thummim in the breast plate, this cannot be neces- 
sary now, when God has sent his Son to be our High 
Priest, "For there is one God and one Mediator 
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus." — 
1st Tim. ii. 5. But Christ left apostles, disciples and 
deacons to christianize the world ; so that, though the 
High Priest's garments may be dispensed with, there 
is still need of a priestly garment, and as it is certain 
that no black garment was ever worn by a Jewish 
priest, does not the beautiful white robe seem the most 
appropriate, seeing that white is the emblem of purity, 
and that to be clothed in white is the privilege of 
those that overcome? — Rev. iii. "And to her was 
granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, 
clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness 
of the Saints." — Rev. xix. 8. St. Paul tells us that 
Jesus is the High Priest over the house of God. — 
Heb. x. 21. In Mark xiv. 49, Christ says, "I was 
daily with you in the temple teaching." Christ's 
example is sufficient to prove the necessity of wor- 
shipping God in a temple made with hands, though 
in Acts vii. 47 it says that " Solomon built him an 
house ; howbeit the Most High dwelleth not in tem- 
ples made with hands," which certainly means that, 
though it is pleasing to God that he should be wor- 
shipped in a church or temple, still that it Is in the 
sanctuary of the heart where he wishes to dwell, and 
the heart that loves his heavenly Father will seek 
him in his holy temple like a faithful, loving child. 

" So shall his walk be close with God, 

" Calm and serene his frame, 
" So purer light shall mark the road 

" That leads him to the Lamb." 



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And when the time is come that the earth shall be 
glorified, he will return and have his part in the first 
resurrection. To live on this earth for a thousand 
years without sickness, disease or death, is a privi- 
lege only to be enjoyed by those who are Christ's at 
his coming. Those who have resisted the temptations 
of the Devil through faith in Jesus ; those who have 
been made perfect through suffering. — Ephesians iv. 
13. 

It does not appear in Scripture that the wicked 
receive any glorified body — they have no part in the 
first resurrection. This body will be the same as the 
one in which Christ appeared to his disciples after he 
rose from the dead, he was then so changed that Mary 
did not know him till he spoke to her, till he called 
her by name " Mary.'" Will he call us all by name ? 
Then, when the disciples were assembled with closed 
doors, Christ appeared before them suddenly without 
opening the doors ; this he never did before his death, 
and with this glorified body he ascended into Heaven : 
" while they beheld he was taken up." — Acts. i. 9. 

The voice said he would come again, but when he 
comes, it will be as king, to reign over his kingdom, 
to reign supreme over the hearts of all the dwellers 
on the earth. When Christ came before, it was as a 
son under obedience. And at the end of all things he 
will appear as judge, when all who have ever lived on 
this earth, the wicked with their soil-stained garments, 
and the righteous in their glorified bodies, will receive 
their righteous sentence. The last enemy to be des- 
troyed is death, so that death can have no power over 
these glorified bodies. Christ tells us in Mat. xxiii. 
39, " Ye shall not see me henceforth till ye shall say, 
blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." 
What a glorious time it will be to feel secured from 
the snares and temptations of the evil one, to feel 
free from this constant warfare, to feel that we are 



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day by day becoming holier and better, more fitted to 
be angels in Heaven, learning day by day to know 
God, and to love him, and to feel that the time is ap- 
proaching when we shall no longer see through a 
glass darkly, but face to face, striving constantly to 
make others happy instead of living for ourselves. 

Money, theidol of the world, will then be shattered ; 
there will be no such hoarding and gathering as there is 
now ; each person will work so many hours a day, and 
all will have a living faith that God will provide, for he 
has said : " All the earth is mine." — Ex. xix. 5. " All 
the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord." 
Num. xiv. 21. " Take therefore no thought for the 
morrow ; for the morrow shall take thought for the 
things of itself." — Mat. vi. 34. May all Christians 
look at the signs of the times ; all things are teaching 
us that a change is coming ; we know not how soon 
we may hear the voice saying : "Praise our God, all 
ye his servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and 
great ; and I heard as it were the voice of great mul- 
titudes, and as the voice of many waters, and as the 
voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia : for the 
Lord God omnipotent reigneth." — Rev. xx. 5-6. 
" Even so, come, Lord Jesus. The Grace of our Lord 
Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." Rev. xxii. 2. 

Considering the following worthy of notice, I insert 
it here : — 

In reading a book the other day, I was struck with the followiDg 
remarks : — " As God was both the Jewish God and King, the 
Tabernacle and the Temple may be considered not only as the 
residence of their God, but also as the palace of their King ; also 
the Court of the Tabernacle was the Court of the Palace; the 
Holy of Holies was the Presence Chamber, the Mercy Seat was his 
throne. The Cherubs represented his attendants as God, and the 
Priests were his Ministers of State as King ; the Levites his Officers 
dispersed through his Kingdom. The table of Show Bread, to- 
gether with the sacrifices which were given to the Priest, repre- 
sented the provision for his household." 

And Josephus says, that the two parts of the Tabernacle which 



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weie accessible to the Priests, denoted the Land and the Sea. But 
the third part, which was for God alone, represented Heaven, 
whieh is inaccessible to men. The twelve loaves on the Table 
stood for our twelve months ; the seven lamps, the seven planets ; 
the four vials, the four elements ; the plain linen, the earth, be- 
cause flax grows in the earth. The purple signified the sea, because 
that colour is dyed by the blood of a sea shell fish ; the blue, the 
air ; the scarlet, fire ; the ephod shewed that God had made the 
universe of four elements, and the gold related to the splendour 
by which all are enlightened. Breast plate in the middle of the 
ephod resembled the earth, for that has the middle place in the 
world. The two buttons on the priests' shoulder, stood for the sun 
and moon. 



Through this year that's just begun 
Let us every Idol shun. 
The Holy Spirit conies to reign, 
To wipe away all tears and pain. 

May women in one bond unite 
To crush the wrong and do the right, 
Then men and angels soon will sing 
Praise to God our Heavenly King. 

When love in every household dwells 
Then gaily ring the marriage bells ; 
The sword will in its scabbard rust, 
And all will in the Saviour trust. 



The tree of life we then shall taste 
No more our energies shall waste ; 
Our goodness, truth and love alone 
Will fit us then to fill a Throne. 




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ADAM'S SIN. 

'Tis sad to think of all the crime 

One act of selfish pleasure cost, 
Spread vice around in every clime, 

All man's spir'tual eyesight lost. 

No longer innocent and pure, — 

They thought themselves from God to hide, 
"With lame excuses tried to cure 

The sin for which their God did chide. 

Soon envy fill'd the human mind, 
And caus'd a brother's blood to flow, 

For angry passions Cain did blind, 
And Abel died beneath his blow. 

When Adam, Eve, and Cain first look'd 
On sin's first fruits, sweet Abel's death, 

Their limbs with horror must have shook, 
They lost their sight and he his breath. 

Hope still remains, with faith to guide, 
Goodness may yet man's breath retain, 

For God will not his children chide, 
When from their sins they do abstain. 

Christ liv'd and died that men may learn 

Never to taste forbidden fruit ; 
Mankind might surely now discern 

Evil will not their Maker suit. 

Satan has for many a day 

With his passions hearts defil'd, 
Faith, hope, and love has hid away, 

And with his doubts and fears beguil'd. 
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His anger first shed human blood, 
And taught men to deceive and lie ; 

Man's works drove God to send a flood, 
When almost all the race did die. 

When man puts from him all his fear, 
And in his God does firmly trust, 

He will his footsteps once more hear, 
And feel that God is good and just. 

For Christ has shed his blood in love, 
In order that mankind may live, 

May welcome back the heavenly Dove, 
And with the angels glory give. 

Soon may this end accomplish'd be, 
The electric tie draws mind to mind, 

Soon may our spirits learn to see, 
And know that God is ever kind. 

The Devil's sway will then be past, 
This kingdom then our Lord's become, 

God's reign will then for ever last, 
His will on earth be ever done. 

Come sisters, virgins, arm and try 
If death's last arrows we can fly ; 
If from the earth the curse we rake, 
Death will this kingdom then forsake. 

When we our passions all subdue, 
And give to God what is his due, 
Like Jesus try with all our might 
To walk as always in his sight, 

His guidance follow day by day, 
In sleep our souls on Jesus lay; 
His blood will wash out all the stains, 
And draw us with his gentle reins. 



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Our homes will be a scene of bliss, 
The virtues will each other kiss ; 
Labour and love together wed, 
New light will on our path be shed. 

Our bodies will not waste away, 
But stronger grow from day to day ; 
Like lions, overcome the foe, 
And God will banish all our woe. 

Like eagles soar with God on high, 
And we will see beyond the sky ; 
What glories we shall then behold ! 
Jesus will all to us unfold. 

Like oxen, work and labor hard, 

To plough the heart and plant the word, 

Seed of union we will sow, 

And all in grace together grow. 

The Shepherd then his lambs will call, 
Jews and Turks and Christians all, 
One Ark will build and enter in, 
And all will then have done with sin. 

And to the earth then will return 
Saints, prophets, fathers, all to learn 
That Christ the victory has elaim'd, 
And death and hell will both be chain'd. 

The thousand years will on us dawn, 
Earth's idols we will learn to scorn ; 
With chain and key the dragon bound, 
All peaceful we will walk around. 



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AN ALLEGOKY. 

A ship sets gaily out to sea, 

With all her colors flying, 
The crew as busy as a bee, 

All storms and gales defying. 

At first her course is very smooth, 

The sailors whistle and sing, 
The pilot leaves with lines to soothe, 

Those whose hearts a parting wring. 

How confidently each one talks 
Of the land they hope to reach, 

And as upon the deck they walk, 
Think of homes they will besiege. 

When lo ! a grating sound is heard, 
Now fear shakes each human frame, 

Some rocks ! some rocks ! are whispered, — 
All the life boat try to gain. 

One voice alone is calm and strong, 
He says, wait and make ready, 

She has not struck, so come along 
And try to keep her steady. 

They work and strive, but all in vain, 

The rudder soon gets broken, 
Water dashes through each pane — 

Not many words are spoken. 

The ship seems doom'd, they fear they soon 

Will sink beneath the ocean j 
The night was dark, no cheerful moon — 

The wind kept her in motion. 



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Four anchors from the stern was cast, 
And for the clay they pray'd; 

Some thought it best to make her fast, 
So in the ship they stay'd. 

The sun peep'd out, light always cheering, 
Fresh strength to their courage gave ; 

Slowly now the shij) they're steering, 
Through shoals, and rocks, and caves. 

Sailors and crew united toil, 

To pass the dangerous cliffs, 
The anchors rise, the ropes they coil, 

She floats and then she shifts. 

l"he danger past, how thankful all 
To the one who never yielded, 

When for the life boat all did call, 
His prayers their errors shielded. 

The Church now shakes from stem to stern 
With great and small divisions, 

Christians unite and Christ-like learn, 
God's love has no partitions. 



FOR THE PLYMOUTH BRETHREN. 

Christ's words are, " blessed are the meek, 
For they shall inherit the earth," 

Thus the patient yet may seek 
A great reign of glorious mirth. 

Methinks I hear " come blessed, come," 
The kingdom is prepar'd for you ; 

From the beginning Christ my Son 
Has promis'd life for all those who, 



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With faith and patience, hope and joy, 
Strive all their God's commands to keep, 

Who find the gold without alloy, 
Which in his book is hidden deep. 

These at his table drink and eat, 

Many shall come from east and west, 

With all the prophets take their seat, 
And God will give them of the best. 

In them the twelve tribes judges see, 
All on thrones they shall be seated, 

This kingdom then our Lord's will be, 
Satan's schemes be all defeated. 

On David's throne then Christ will reign, 
And round him all his sheep will sing ; 

Wash'd in his blood from every stain, 
The air will loud with praises ring. 

This second Eden men behold, 
Look forward but a little space, 

For those glories and joys untold, 

Which all who conquer them will taste. 

hasten the day of his coming, 
Our swords into ploughshares beating, 

Spears into pruning hooks turning, 
Isaac and Jacob awaking. 

Then the earth will its garments change, 

Eighteousness it will put on ; 
The Devil will not then derange 

The stones in the temple of God. 

For the spirit with love's cement, 
Will each stone to its place restore, 

With holiness and truth prevent 
Sin over ent'ring at the door. 






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When the great corner stone returns, 
Each jewel will find its place, 

He who o'ercomes and evil spurns, 
Will see his dear Saviour's face. 



SIN OF SWEARING. 

WRITTEN BY REQUEST OP J. 0. L. 

Children to school for knowledge go, 
The world its ways to learn, 

That they, when they do older grow, 
Their bread themselves may earn. 

Some go to it quite willingly, 

Acquiring, day by day 
Some new ideas, pleasantly 

To cheer them on their way. 

Some with a sad, reluctant air, 

Without a steady aim, 
Find everywhere some little snare, 

Their thoughts and time to claim. 

Like pretty summer butterflies, 
They taste each little sweet j 

Never labouring for a prize, 
Their minds they daily cheat. 

Then evil words fill up the space, 
They learn to curse and swear : 

The Christian name they thus disgrace, 
And for Satan's rule prepare. 

Masters then in Passions fly, 
When bad boys them provoke, 

These boys then quickly tell a lie, 
And walk in Satan's yoke. 



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As good and evil seed we find, 

Our pathway doth surround ; 
Certain plain rules should surely bind, 

Or weeds will fill the ground. 

Bad words like stinging wasps to flee, 

Let school boys be agreed, 
And each, like an industrious bee, 

His soul and body feed. 

Then all will very careful be, 
What from the mouth proceeds ; 

Begin each day with bended knee, 
To plant some Holy Seeds. 

The food that in the mouth we place, 

We cleanse and purify ; 
But oaths which will destroy our race, 

Come forth without a sigh. 

Your words like purest honey, should 
Make all your pathway smooth ; 

That like a tree which years has stood, 
A standard you will prove. 

The bees a solemn lesson teach, 
Which young minds should apply ; 

Each little bee to us does preach, 
And food for us supply. 

Not only for their daily wants, 
Do the bees provide some food ; 

But men in earth's most dreary haunts, 
Have found their honey good. 

The Baptist on it did subsist, 

With locusts for his meat, 
When gaining strength to pierce the mist 

Of earth's great winding sheet. 



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Then masters, schoolboys, one and all, 

At once try some new plan, 
That all may as before the fall, 

See Christ again as man. 

Each day, in three you should divide. 

Be just in all you do ; 
Let not the morning from you slide 

Till God has had his due, 

The body then demands your care, 

Its wants are not a few, 
Give it, oh, give it but its share, 

Or you will have to rue. 

Books and works of various kinds, 

The third part will engross ; 
E'en through these pathways Satan winds, 

Of great minds he can boast. 

Then watch and trim your lamps anew, 

Lay in a store of oil, 
For soon God's own beloved Jew 

Will share with us the spoil. 

Darkness and light still represent, 

The spirit that will guide ; 
Now chosen by our own consent, 

Hereafter to preside. 

Our will is free to make the choice, 

Now we ourselves enlist, 
God speaks to us in tender voice, 

The tempter to resist. 

When he beguiles with trifling arts, 

And glittering golden toys ; 
Purloining, snaring, binding hearts, 

Concealing God's pure joys. 



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A WONDEEFUL LIGHT SEEN IN THEEE 
EIYEES JULY, 1873. 

What strange light is this I see, 

Shedding such a lustre round ; 
Can it a faint shadow be, 

That thy truth will soon abound ? 

That the things which chain and bind 
All thy creatures here on earth, 

Pierc'd by rays of some new kind, 
Will produce some lasting mirth ? 

It lights the country far and wide, 

Encirclos each shrub and tree ; 
The boats and vessels as they glide, 

Newly painted seem to be. 

Lake St. Peter glitters so, 

That we gaze with rapture great ; 

To my mind it seems to show 
Earth's glorious future state. 

When our tabernacles three, 

Which St. Peter did design, 
Will united plant the tree, 

And the ever-living vine, 

Of which, when our souls partake, 

Pure and holy hearts we gain ; 
Satan foil'd, will us forsake, 

When Christ in our hearts does reign. 

None will labor then in vain, 

Those that plant good fruit will eat, 

And all youthful will remain, 
Till Messiah they do greet 



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When he comes some to reward, 
Seated on his Mighty throne, 

Many now who call Christ, Lord, 
I fear he will then disown. 

The Grlory he with him will bring, 

Will brighten all below ; 
Saints and angels then will fling 

A vail over sin and woe. 

And what prophets have foretold, 
Which is hard to comprehend, 

They will to us all unfold, 

And our doubts and fears will end. 

May the Jews at once begin 

To regenerate the earth, 
So that Satan, death and sin 

Shall no longer mar our mirth. 

Then the Father, Spirit, Son, 
So much glory will reveal , 

That the light of moon and sun 
It will from us quite conceal. 

Darkness then all disappears 

Before this great wondrous light, 

Christ will dry up all our tears, 
And restore our long-lost sight. 

Then with one united chime, 

Alleluia we will sing, 
And through all and ev'ry clime, 

Shall its echoes joyful ring. 



last, mtstttt, anir MyAwct. 



Past, Present and Future must be my Theme, 
That some of their errors we may redeem. 
Past, which is gone, never more to return, 
Present, in which men and women may learn 
That none are unselfish enough on earth 
To love you, because of your virtuous worth ; 
So, in future our thoughts must soar above 
To Him, who lives in the region of love ; 
And pray Him to send down heavenly peace, 
To cause all discords and passions to cease ; 
To make goodness triumph, and never yield 
Till the tempter is driven from the field ; 
His gold may glitter, his pleasures may please, 
His surrounding wealth may give men some ease, 
But they know not the moment death may call, 
And scatter their idols and treasures, all. 
But the faith to use our wealth, while in health, 
To glorify God, regardless of self, 

Will sift Satan's schemes, his stubble will 

burn, 
To his own dark region he will return, 
Fleeing from earth in rage and despair 

At the sight of Christ in His regal 
chair,— 

For, when his spiritual reigns be- 



return 

HsHPtn 



The Christian his crown of 

glory wins — 

The trials and sorrows of 

earth will end — 

Deceivers and liars to 

hell descend. 



FUTURE. 






Fed with holy food, 
Strengthened from above ; 
Daily doing good. 
Labouring with love, 
Singing songs of praise, 
"With a cheerful will, 
Working day by day, 
Shunning all that's ill, 
Living like the just, 
Generous and kind, 
All around us must 
Daily blessings find. 



Never deceiving, 
A foe or a friend, 
Ever believing 
Christ soon will descend. 



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7th LUKE. 

Into a city called Nam 

Christ with much people went, 
At the gate he beheld, with pain, 

A widow whose heart was rent 

With anguish sore : her only son 
Was stretch'd upon his bier, 

All joy for her on earth was done, — 
When Jesus himself drew near. 

Weep not, Christ to the widow said, 
Young man do thou now arise, 

The dead sat up and spake, Christ led 
Him to her before all eyes. 

Lazarus, Jairus and this youth 
Christ rais'd from death to life, 

He taught us how to walk in truth, 
And conquer in the strife. 

Christ said a little while must pass 
Before he claim'd his Bride, 

That time is passing, but alas 1 
The Bride does her beauty hide. 

Beneath a weight of pomp and show 
Her sweet graces three are lost, 

She must be humbled and brought low, 
No mattor how great the cost. 

When she has purified her faith, 
Stript all her vain idols bare, 

She will the great voice hear that saith 
My tabernacle is there. 



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21st JOHN, 23. 

I will that thou shalt tarry 

In space until I come, 
Hasten, Lord, thy church to marry, 

And all to fold in one. 

Then all the saints and martyrs, 
Who tarry, Lord, for thee ; 

The voice of many waters, 
To thee will bend the knee. 

Christ comes not to a manger, 
With friends a very few, 

Nor as a weary stranger, 
To ask what is his due : 

On a White Horse him behold, 
He the Faithful and true, 

Many crowns of shining gold, 
A name that no man knew. 

A vesture dipped in blood, 
Our G-od will bring to light, 

With his armies like a flood, 
In linen pure and. white. 



THE SHIELD OF FAITH. 

This world is a great battle field, 
Where Evil has triumphed long ; 

Faith is now the Christian shield, 
And Hope is his constant song. 

The Faith that our Maker requires 
Is a real and a living thing j 

It is yielding the heart's desire, 
If it leads to any sin. 



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'Tis the feeling that God knows best, 
That his hand directs the way j 

It is laying our hearts to rest, 
And doing his will each day. 

Our Saviour, gentle and kind, 

Taught us God's will must be done, 

But we are so dreadfully blind, 
His work we try to shun. 

As soon as living Faith prevails, 
The Battle draws to an end ; 

The Devil never men assails, 
When their armour does defend. 

Through our Idols he now assaults 
And then he our hearts surrounds, 

Then pursuing he never halts, 
Till he pierces and confounds. 

cast then our dead Faith away, 
Of time give God the tenth ; 

Let Christ's example be our stay, 
God's Spirit will give us strength. 



PATIENCE. 

Like Jonah we do fast and pray, 
In God's own appointed way, 
But oh how sadly we contend, 
With the trials that he sends. 

Our Father must know what is best, 
He is right our Faith to test ; 
If we could all our wishes gain, 
What confusion would prevail. 



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Then let us be content and wise, 
Daily blessings learn to prize, 
Submissive when he takes away, 
Looking for a brighter day. 

The love that G-od to us has shown, 
Ought to melt our hearts of stone, 
Should teach us all events to trust 
To the only Wise and Just. 

If for God's laws we show much zeal 
Bitter words men make us feel. 
The world does not such understand, 
They are mocked on ev'ry hand. 

Daily we must patient grow, 
Though the waves of trouble flow ; 
Endurance is a virtue great, 
Loving we must watch and wait. 

God will in time accept the meek, 
They are those Christ came to seek ; 
Every trial G-od does send, 
Is intended to amend, 

To purify and make us clean, 
Raise our thoughts to things unseen ; 
Prepare us for that glorious time, 
When life will become divine. 



MATTHEW vi. 24. 

Two masters now men try to please, 
This Christ said he could not do, 

And yet man uses every nerve 
His body's cravings to pursue. 



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Each one has some besetting sin, 
Which he needs to hold in check, 

Or Satan will contrive to spin 
A web that poor soul to wreck. 

No ray of light can penetrate, 
When the web he does complete ; 

His angels guard so well the gate, 
That it forms his winding sheet. 

The heart that did unwind his skein, 

Unravel all Satan's scheme, 
Does well deserve Messiah's name, 

For his work our souls redeem. 

His daily life so perfect, pure, 
Though temptations did assail ; 

The lame, the blind and deaf did cure, 
Yes, and over death prevail. 

Hark ! the solemn funeral bell, 

Of Christ the Saviour dear, 
He died to rescue man from hell, 

To make him both see and hear 

The mighty God who Adam knew, 
When on earth he first was placed ; 

And pardon for the sins to sue, 
Of this race by sin disgrac'd. 

But man for whom this work was done, 

Still pursues his evil ways, 
He will not selfish pleasures shun — 

Like Eelix, waits future days. 

The heavens shook, the earth did quake, 
When Christ hung up on the cross, 

The darkness made men's bodies shake 
Yea, their souls were tempest-tost. 



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He travell'd to the spirit's land, 
And there set the captives free, 

His followers, a little band, 
Did his resurrection see. 

They saw his body that was pierc'd, 
With great agony and pain, 

But oh ! how soon their sorrow ceas'd, 
When they heard his voice again. 

Before them all he did ascend 
To his mansion in the skies, 

His spirit will on all descend, 
When his love alone we prize. 

This world would be the land of life, 
Perpetual youth would reign, 

If all would try, and work, and strive, 
To earn a christian name. 

The flaming sword that guards the gate 
Would guide us and give us light j 

The Seraphim that always wait, 
Would restore the Tree of Life. 

Nations all awake, arise, 

Be virtuous in your youth ; 
As soon as men are really wise, 

They'll aim for eternal truth. 

The curse will not then mar the scene, 
Christ his ensign will display, 

And his five sacraments wi.ll gleam, 
With a bright electric ray, 

Which will in time restore the sight, 
That has from our spirits fled, 

And will forever put to flight 
All the misery and dread 



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Which Adam brought upon the race, 
When he tasted Satan's sweets, 

Which still all eagerly embrace, 
When he cunningly entreats. 

He thus controls men's hearts on earth, 

In his old deceitful way, 
Giving a little short-liv'd mirth, 

For their homage day by day. 

But when our hearts we all prepare 
For Christ's spiritual reign, 

Satan will not our souls ensnare, 
Nor will death our bodies claim. 

As Messiah Christ then will come, 

His victory to maintain, 
And with the splendor of the sun, 

Will appear the righteous slain. 



THE CONSCIENCE. 

O how we long the voice to hear, 
Of the one our soul holds dear ; 
Do we thus welcome that still voice, 
Saying, good must be your choice. 

Every creature feels its power 
Speaking in Temptation's hour. 
Beware, desist, it is a sin, 
Keep all pure and bright within. 

In every age and every zone 
All have heard its gentle tone, 
Thus none can say they never knew 
God with man does ever sue. 



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Some say, God does predestinate 
And destruction is their fate ; 
God has forechosen his elect, 
They may well be circumspect. 

But with a will as free as air, 
Conscience whispering beware, 
Thoughts such as these must be untrue, 
This our God could never do. 

Man daily does Christ crucify 
"When God's spirit they defy ; 
Let altogether hear and heed, 
And such thorns and thistles weed. 

Then to God's will we all will bow, 
And to keep his law will vow, 
Images, idols, all must fall, 
For his still small voice does call. 



THE SABBATH DAY. 

The Sabbath day, the Sabbath day, 

A precious gift to man ; 
O that I could in this my lay, 

All its glories fairly scan. 

Six days of strife and contest great 
Again have passed away, 

O may we ere, it is too late, 
Feel precious that great day. 

'Twas by a Heavenly Father made, 
For knowledge of him to gain, 

Six days the earth in order laid, 
The seventh his power sustain. 



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Our earthly parents ask that we 
Should learn to love and fear them ; 

We must very plainly see 

When God speaks we must hear him. 

Six thousand years are nearly past 
Since one day's rest he ordered, 

Man will I fear until the last, 
Be selfish, proud, disorder'd. 

But when these past, the time of rest, 
Which quickly is approaching, 

Bursts forth with joy and with a zest, 
For those whose lamps are burning. 

How will those feel who all their share 
Of time and rest have wasted ; 

They cannot think that we will spare 
Our oil, when we have tasted — 

The pleasures and the happiness 

God for us has provided ; 
Oh no ! we then will love them less, 
And care not where they're hided. 

But oh ! once more I pray that all 

Will listen to their Maker, 
At once, before the angels call, 

Be one with their Creator. 

For when he comes as King to reign, 
With glory o'er his Kingdom j 

This world he frees from ev'ry pain, 
Drives Death from this Dominion. 



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THE MILLENNIUM. 

The reign of Christ draws near, 
Soon, soon he will appear, 
He then will claim his Bride, 
And for her wants provide. 



The bridal robes prepare, 
"With pure bright jewels rare, 
Fine linen clean and white, 
Bring forth for her to light. 



Your voices tune to sing 
Alleluia to the King, 
"With the saints and martyrs 
Voice of many waters , 



And mighty thunderings, 
Then suddeoly there springs 
One startling song of praise, 
Which earth to Heav'n will raise. 



And being glorified 
With love electrified, 
Then spiritual light 
Will shine for ever bright. 

And under his own vine, 
In that bright happy time, 
Will each man with his wife, 
Enjoy the things of life. 



STRAY LEAVES 



STRAY LEAVES. 

To the memory of the Rev. Dean Bethune, who 
was Eector of Montreal Cathedral for nearly half a 
century. 

Worms of the earth, why so much pride ? 

In the grave yard side by side, 

See kings and nobles and our dean, 

"With the poor, the vile, the mean, 

This worthy priest has passed away, 
And his body turned to clay, 
His spirit soars in space alone, 
In that place on earth unknown. 

He is now waiting at the shore, 
Christ, who is himself the door, 
Drawing him to his blessed fold, 
Saints and martyrs to behold. 

He held for nearly three score years, 
In this vale of woe and tears, 
Office of deacon, priest and dean, 
Always cheerful, calm, serene. 

And when with Jesus he returns, 
With the crown the christian earns, 
Evil will not his course impede, 
Nor his heart be made to bleed. 

Archdeacons, rectors, canons, deans, 
Great high-sounding names it seems, 
But I have searched but never found, 
In the Bible any ground 



For any of these mighty four, 
Which are increasing by the score ; 
Bishops, priests, and deacons though, 
Were to combat with the foe. 

These our christian orders three, 
Are as plain as plain can be, 
The others great confusion make, 
To their folly pray awake. 

If for peace you all really sigh, 
Let these foolish trifles die ; 
Strive to be honest, just and true. 
You will reap the honor due. 



LINES WEITTEN ON THE CHURCH IN THREE 

RIVERS WHICH AFTER BEING USED AS A MONAS- 
TERY, AND COURT HOUSE BECAME AN EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH AND HAS LATELY BEEN MODERNIZED. 

The oldest church in this our land 
Surrounded by Three Rivers stands ; 
Many histories it can tell, 
For it has wrung their dying knell. 

First jolly monks its niches fill'd, 
And round it many acres till'd, 
They, like their fathers, idols had, 
Or still with bodies would be clad. 

Their deeds of goodness or of sin 
Have left no mark or trace within, 
None these will know until the time 
That Jesus' reign begins to shine. 



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A time of war brought changes round, 
And judges on its benches found 
That they within those walls should hold 
Judgment on sinners from the fold. 

These also had their time and day, 
And like the monks have passed away ; 
But some of them will soon return, 
And with their fellows live and learn. 

That had they lived as Jesus did, 
They in the earth would not be hid. 
Then all our idols we will burn, 
And a Christian name will earn. 

Again it saw another change, 
The law the priests again derange, 
And rob'd and mitred weekly sung, 
Their voices high in praises rung. 

When it was curious and quaint, 
Some persons thought it needed paint, 
Forgetting what our Saviour taught, 
They old and new together wrought. 

First they put God's commands aside, 
Which should all congregations guide, 
Every altar they should grace, 
This seems to be their proper place. 

The Dove, the emblem of God's love, 
Hovering o'er them from above, 
Imparts to them no mystic sign, 
They must replace with new design. 

And gaudy figures now are seen 
Where this symbol once did gleam, 
Are figures in their proper place, 
When they do the Altar grace ? 



The Dove each temple should adorn, 
Without it we must ever mourn. 
The one that from the Ark did soar, 
May we soon to our Ark restore. 

O Earth, earth, earth at once attend. 
Begin and all your ways amend ; 
Jesus, David's righteous branch, 
A perfect temple soon will launch. 

The Spirit urges me to write, 
To bid you walk as in his sight, 
That when his work is well begun 
You may not find yourselves undone. 

Make one great purifying change, 
Which will our errors all arrange, 
Unite us all in Christ's great cause, 
And teach us all to keep his laws. 

Not one or two for fear of man, 
Which before God is but a sham, 
But sifting ev'ry thought and word, 
Knowing God all has seen and heard. 

Then the holy heavenly Dove 
Will bind us with the cords of love, 
Making us one in thought and deed, 
One Baptism, and one holy creed. 



THE FALLS OF NIAGARA. 



Niagara, thou wonder ! 

With ever ceaseless roar, 
Thy immeasurable water, 

Whose great unfailing store 



For centuries has steadily 

Been pouring o'er these rocks. 

Some escaping stealthily, 
The mighty vortex mocks. 

All quickly disappearing 

Beneath a placid brow, 
To the whirlpool receding, 

Can any tell us how ? 

None but the Great Creator, 

To whom our thoughts must rise ? 

The one originator 

Of earth, sea, air and skies. 

This vast flowing cataract, 
God in his wisdom made, 

The builder, the architect, 
Here has well portray 'd. 

That eternal bliss or woe, 
For man so long design'd, 

Whither all do daily row 
Each to his place" assign'd. 

See that lovely shade cf green, 
Beneath the rapid foam ; 

Giving man a little gleam 
Of a bright future home. 

Then in that beauteous spray, 

We may easily discern 
The bright glorified array, 

That God's chosen ones will earn, 

When, as in the burning springs, 
Fire from the waters blaze, 

Christ with healing in his wings, 
With love will all amaze. 



And beneath a bridal veil, 
Our differences cease ; 

The Messiah all will hail. 
God's Spirit give us peace. 



THE GREAT BOAT RACE ON THE KENEBE- 

CASIS. 

A boat race, 'tis a sight to see, 
The St. John's against England free, 
The men well trained for action, 
With certain food and good tuition. 

Their minds on it for months were bent, 
Ev'ry energy on it spent, 
Constant thought by night and by day, 
To gain a victory they say. 

Great crowds assemble on the wharf, 
How eager all to see them off; 
They start, and England shouts ahead, 
"When their champioc drops his head. 

The race of life for him is done, 
And what has all his hard work won, 
Another man jumps in the boat, 
And soon they are again afloat. 

A little shock men have receiv'd, 
Still evil will them all deceive, 
It never strikes them something 's wrong 
With all that vast and motley throng. 

Death no more arrows here would shoot 
If man would hear his Maker's suit, 
Keep all his passions in control, 
And train and gently feed the soul. 



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A boat race it should be a sight 
In which all men might take delight, 
"Were it once stript of all the vice 
Which now men think so very nice. 

The idol now that makes men sin 

Is bright without and black within ; 

It gives them pleasure for a day, 

And guides them on their downward wary 

For Eenforth this time's life is o'er, 
Four doctors cannot him restore, 
!Nor priestly lore nor human skill, 
Can change the great Creator's will. 

God speaks, he sends this cross to move 
Mankind to worship him in love, 
In active sports men may delight 
If they but keep their God in sight. 



THE BOSTON JUBILEE OF 1872. 

Great country, England's daughter 

Hail thy time of jubilee, 
Gather'd from ev'ry quarter, 

All nations sing with thee. 

Joy and peace you well combine, 
Discords thus will pass away, 

Love to man in this does shine, 
You have reason to be gay. 

Open'd well with praise to God, 
Psalm of old, sweet voices sing, 

Instruments, with one accord, 
Make the very timbers ring. 



One angelic voice is heard, 

Whose sweet notes all hearts entrance, 
This fine German singing bird, 

Gives to higher joys a glance. 

English, Prussian, German, French, 
Four great bands with yours unite, 

Sounds and din of war thus quench, 
Is a grand and beauteous sight. 

Pilgrim fathers would rejoice 

If they heard these peaceful strains, 

Thousands singing with one voice, 
Proves that Satan's kingdom wanes. 



ON KING'S CHAPEL, THE OLDEST CHUKCH 

IN BOSTON, BUILT FOR AN EPISCOPALIAN CHURCH 
NOW USED AS A UNITARIAN. 

A fine old church in Boston stands, 
Built the three in One to Praise. 

The form they still hold in their hands, 
It now wrong belief conveys. 

The Evil one has made this change, 
Taught men to doubt God's power ; 

He tries his worship to derange, 
And makes himself their tower. 

Men who in God's own image made, 

Body, mind and soul possess, 
Ought to tremble and be afraid, 

Their Creator to address. 

Without the aid of God the Son 

And the Spirit for their guest ; ^ 

The great I am, the Three in One, 
Bids us build in Christ our nest. 



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To those who feel he is Divine 
A Rock that no storm can shake ; 

But sand that flies before the wind, 
If we from him this power take. 

O that my verse could penetrate, 
Could pierce like a two-edged sword, 

The worshippers who sit in state 
Where Satan is thus ador'd. 



LINES 



WEITTEN ON HEARING OP THE GREAT FIRE IN 
CHICAGO IN 1871. 

This planet bright and blooming made, 
With sin is covered with a shade ; 
Evil has made for it a pall 
Which hangs about it since the Fall. 

This blight which causes life to cease, 
Which all our hopes from us does fleece, 
Is draping all the earth in cloud 
For Fire and Sword are flying round. 

The Evil Spirit war has waged, 
And like a Lion he has raged 
To see his glory on the wane, 
His idols broken like a pane. 

In ten years time a city sprung, 
The theme of all and every tongue ; 
Money was there so quickly coined 
That some were thought to have purloined. 

So prosperous they had become 
That evil they forgot to shun ; 
Their joy has all been turned to woe, 
New seed they must begin to sow. 
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Men toil and strive with pain and tears 
To gather gold for future years, 
And in an hour this precious hoard 
Is swept away from off the board. 

For Fire — that direful, dreadful, scourge, 
Has rais'd a loud and dismal dirge ; 
Their gourds have all been swept away, 
And prov'd themselves but worthless clay. 

Oh ! that I could men's spirits raise, 
Prepare them for those brighter days, 
That mighty reign of Christ on earth 
When all will have a second birth. 



ON THE WISCONSIN FIEES IN 1871. 

A fire, behold it blazes bright, 
It is a grand imposing sight, 
To see tall and towering trees 
Lighting skies and neighboring seas. 

Serpent- like it coils round and round, 
And trails itself along the ground, 
Destroying all within its reach, 
The course of sin it does us teach. 

Scores of men in a barn did hide, 
But on and on the fire did glide, 
Their groans and moans it heeded not, 
Nothing but ashes marks the plot. 

All things now have a mournful air, 
Hearts seem all so opprest with care, 
These trials are uniting lands, 
For see them with extended hands. 



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England like a good old mother 
Sends gold guineas to her daughter ; 
Canada, a loving sister, 
Sends her salve to heal the blister. 

The other states their lavish wealth 
Send to restore their sister's health, 
This is the way to sheath the swords. 
To scatter round our heaps and hoards. 

Such great love is a sight to see, 
Distrust and envy soon will flee, 
Christian work begins to dawn, 
Soon we will hear the angel's horn. 

What a glorious sound to those 
Who on Messiah's love repose, 
Twelve gates of pearl will them enclose, 
The Tree of Life God will disclose. 



ON THE OCCASION OF NINE PEOPLE BEING 

POISONED, FROM DRINKING STOLEN WINE, AND 
DYING IN HERMINE STREET, MONTREAL. 

Sad and tragic are the scenes 

We daily see and hear ; 
Very short-liv'd are the dreams 

Of bliss in sin's career. 

See those poor benighted souls, 

Who drank that stolen wine, 
Which within like burning coals 

Of poison soon gave sign. 

What is the end of their joy, 

Their nights of noisy mirth, 
Their own idol did destroy 

Yes, swept them from the earth* 



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For at this, their last carouse', 

Their greedy appetite 
The Lord's angel did arouse, 

Quite suddenly to smite. 

Both yoang and old with horror 
Felt poison in their veins, 

And then upon the morrow 
Death seven of them claims. 

Some days pass and other two 
Were cold and lifeless clay, 

Others all their life will rue 
Sin's poisonous decay. 

The Tempter With drink did lead 
Them to both lie and steal, 

0, that with me all agreed 
On sin to plant their heel. 

By setting his snares aside, 
Examining their worth, 

Then God's spirit will us guide, 
Regenerating the earth. 

Producing much purer wheat, 

Unsullied by a tare, 
Satan then will cease to reap, 

For we will all beware. 

Then, fastening on the shield 
Of faith and love entwin'd, 

Sin's fiery darts must yield, 
For God's truth will us hind. 

And with unity and peace, 
God's praises will resound, 

And our bodies then will cease 
To moulder in the ground 






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AN ADDKESS TO THE FREEMASONS. 

Freemasons, I implore your aid 
Satan's kingdom to invade ; 
God will restore the tree of life 
When we sheath the sword of strife. 

For near six thousand years, with pride 
Sin has turn'd mankind aside, 
"With malicious cunning art, 
From the great Creator's chart. 

A glorious army let us make 
To defeat this wily snake ; 
Then we shall find the narrow way 
Leading to eternal day. 

Once plant the seed I wish to sow, 
Man will bid adieu to woe, 
And Adam's sons will then regain 
What was lost by sin and shame. 

When Eve and Adam sins did chase 
Them from Eden in disgrace ; 
Your craft for truth have always wrought, 
I for years, for it have sought. 

It is the thing that we must find, 
It must flourish in each mind j 
Instead of sparkling now and then, 
It must be the one great gem 

Lighting the features of each face, 
With a new and beaut'ous grace ; 
The eyes must brighten with its beams, 
And send forth its holy gleams. 



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This is the sacred, mystic tie 
For which now we all do sigh : 
Not Masonic Fraternity, 
But pure Christianity. 

A Brotherhood we then shall see, 
With a thirty-fourth degree ; 
Joining its members link to link, 
Ere their shatter' d ark does sink. 

These will worship the great I Am, 
And work out his wondrous plan, 
Not as our many creeds require ; 
But with one great blaze of fire. 

Extracting truth from each and all, 
They will to their minds recall 
The promises to Abram made, 
When he such strong faith displayed, 

As to offer his dearest son, 
Type of God's own precious one ; 
Who left the great Jehovah's throne, 
That for sin he might atone, 

This mighty, wondrous sacrifice 
Some completely mystifies, 
They cannot, will not comprehend 
That their God did condescend 

The evil spirit's scheme to foil, 
From his grasp to snatch the spoil ; 
My work has with the Spirit's aid, 
Satan's scheming well portray'd. 

Written in plain and simple form, 
Of all classic learning shorn, 
It aims to influence the heart, 
Tracing for it virtue's chart. 



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When it is altogether bound, 
Its truth will the Jews astound ; 
God's work in it they will perceive, 
And on Christ they will believe. 

The Builder of the Universe 
Then will ease us of the curse ; 
Out- grand and grac'ous architect 
Will sin from the earth eject. 

Around the cross we then shall see 
Christians, Jews and Turks all three ; 
The heathen seeing such unite, 
Will enquire about the light. 

To Jesus they will bend the knee, 
His love then from sin will free ; 
By encircling this church, the vine, 
We advance this happy time. 

In Christ, we trace the rock or stone 
Which in the first temple shown, 
The latter house will this reveal, 
When with truth and words we seal. 

The oldest symbol that science knows, 
The triangle will disclose ; 
The five mysterious means of grace, 
God has offer'd to the race, 

And which in fellowship will bind 
God with all the human kind ; 
When they of them in faith partake, 
And their sins do all forsake. 

Though but a small, five-pointed star, 
It may end the Christian war ; 
Then perfect health we shall enjoy, 
The *Pentalpha well employ. 



* The Triple Temple is called in Masonry The Pentalpha and is 
the Symbol of Health. 



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The broken square will then unite, 
Darkness will give place to light, 
Beauty and wisdom from above, 
Will combine with strength and lovev 

To make man perfect and upright, 
One in whom God can delight, 
He will not then, as now decay, 
Nor to Satan homage pay. 

The three in one, the great I Am, 
Will restore to earth and man 
The calm and peaceful, holy days, 
On which Adam once did gaze. 

A leaf from Palestine, quite green, 
In your hands last yoar was seen ; 
The Brotherhood this did elate, 
For from thence they emanate. 

My leaves more pleasure will convey, 
They more lasting joys display ; 
And when their precepts fill each soul, 
Christ will come and make us whole. 



For his Spirit my hand does guide, 
And his work it is to chide ; 
Of sin, he said he would convince 
Both the peasant and the prince. 

It was an Eve, the poison gave, 
That made Adam Satan's slave ; 
Another Eve now bids you wake, 
And his chains forever break. 



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A CHILD'S POEM. 

A little maid with golden hair 
Said, read me now another, 

A poem such as you have there, 
For me and for my brother. 

Now just like two pretty flowers, 
That once in a garden grew, 

You gather from gentle showers, 
A sunnier brighter hue. 

That is, if in your daily course 
You your various duties do, 

By drawing from a heav'nly source, 
Strength to make you good and true. 

Rise ev'ry morning just at six, 
And call your little brother, 

Your clothes be sure you neatly fix, 
Then pray and help your mother. 

Then, 'ere you do your breakfast take, 

Read verses in the Bible, 
You scarce will feel a pain or ache 

Unless self is your idol. 

Then set yourself a little task, 
Go then and do it brightly ; 

Speak kindly, and then gently ask, 
To bear your trials lightly. 

Before each meal ask God to bless 

The food he has provided, 
God loves those little children best 

"Who by his hand are guided. 



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When the clock strikes one quickly run, 

And seat yourselves at table, 
At dinner time just stop your fun, 

That is if you are able. 

For if like angels we would live, 

And fit ourselves for glory, 
We must our thoughts put through a seive, 

And daily grow more holy. 

We must not let our bodies have 

Each wish, fancy or desire, 
Or they will use up all our love, 

And our souls drop in the mire. 

Whatever now your habits are, 
Each day they will grow stronger, 

To make them good and regular, 
Our days will grow much longer. 



TO MY NEPHEWS AND NIECES. 

It seems to me I have nephews four, 
And of little nieces just two more, 
Now it really is my earnest wish, 
That they to me should attentive list. 

Begin at once good habits to make, 

To conquer yourselves some measures take ; 

If your bodies are your only care, 

Satan is sure your poor souls to snare. 

First, they will ask that they shall be drest 

In the very finest, very best, 

No matter how it is to be got, 

The contest may yet grow very hot. 



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Ev'ry one at you of course must stare 
To see the fine things you have to wear, 
But then if they really look, what gain, 
What benefit, will it save you pain. 

The body gets lazy when it's so fine, 
For work or reading cannot find time ; 
Idleness opens the door to sin, 
Whose web you will then begin to spin. 

Of eating and drinking next beware, 
For they often do mankind ensnare, 
Every thing's good that God has given, 
If but in moderation taken. 

But appetite must be held in cheek, 
Or it your bodies and souls will wreck, 
As also your tongues be sure to tame, 
Or you cannot earn a christ'an name. 

Never be tempted to risk a cent, 
On cards or games for amusement meant. 
Innocent though in themselves they are, 
When play'd for money they leave a scar. 

Lotteries too are dangerous things, 
Like fortune-telling they have their stings ; 
In those crooked and slippery ways, 
Satan his flocks and his herds does graze. 

Remember there is a wondrous mine, 
Whose precious ore will your thoughts refine, 
One that contains the purest of gold, 
Which will yield pleasures and joys untold. 

If daily this treasure you explore 
And draw from its vast exhaustless store, 
The wisdom that God has hidden there, 
To teach us which God his Son did spare. 



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When our lives reflect its glorious rays, 
Gay, happy and "bright will be our days ; 
New joys will over our senses steal, 
Which Christ himself will to us reveal. 



ON PHILATELY. 

WRITTEN TOR A. E. M. 

A book of stamps indeed 
For which a prize you sue, 

All will at once concede 
That such is but your due. 

To gather trifling things 
Eequires much toil and care. 

But labor's fairy wings 
Will hearts for truth prepare. 

If those stamps could relate 
The sorrow, joy and pain, 

The changes of estate, 
The merchandize and gain, 

The learning and the lore, 
Both poesy and prose, 

Which they from shore to shore 
Did one and all expose, 

With wonder in our eyes 
We would scan their design, 

And learn that little ties 
All nations do combine. 

Great Britain, loyal, true, 
Her sovereign displays, 

Most christian countries too 
Thus emulate her ways. 






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Some add to this a crown, 
While others have a shield, 

Their coat of arms around, 
These stamps with pride are seal'd. 

With numerals some place 
Tn shielded disk their arms, 

With color change their face, 
Thus much enhance their charms. 

An eagle, horse, and ram, 

The lion, unicorn, 
Two bears erect like man, 

Yarious stamps do form. 

A star on a bull's head 

Above a five and four, 
With crown and eagle wed, 

And horn peace to restore. 

A crown on eagle see, 

Laurel does it entwine ; 
The wings are open, free, 

This is a chaste design. 

A castle on a rock — 

A stamp of weight indeed ; 

We only need to knock 

They will answer with speed. 

Tiara and cross keys 

With some stars in a frame — 
Many bend on their knees 

When these things we do nam 3. 

The Mahommedans seem 
To use things without life, 

The moon we see there gleam 
With her reflected light. 



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The dragon in Shangai 
His figure does expose, 

Pray, tell the reason why, 
If any body knows. 

There among the heathen 
He moves along in peace, 

But the Jew and Christian 
Will make his rule to cease. 

St. George and this creature 
On Eussian stamps behold, 

But a brighter picture 

Beneath them does enfold — 

For a sundial lays 

All ready down below, 

To send forth some new rays, 
Which will pierce this our foe. 

Egypt shows her learning, 

With geometric line ; 
Pyramids reminding 

Of that confusing time, 

When God the race dispersed 
To all and every clime, 

And when they first conversed 
By magic and by sign. 

An orange tree appears, 
* Three post horns on its face- 
All our hopes and our fears 
On this stamp we do place. 

For when all in good tune 
Together they do blow, 

Man and earth will assume 
Its mantle free from woe. 



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The stamp of truth will then 

On ev'ry face be seen, 
Man's paradise again, 

All glorifi'd will gleam. 

ANSWER WRITTEN ON HEARING THAT HE LOST THE PRIZE. 

I grieve for you my little friend, 

As I see you did not gain 
The prize for which you did contend, 

Though it seems you had a claim. 

The reason why you lost the stamps 

Eeally now seems very plain, 
Philately more from us demands 

Than your poem did contain. 

It fail'd to notice places where 

The various stamps were sold, 
To speak of those so very rare, 

Which we here and there behold. 

But ignorance we here may plead : 
Both the Smith and Co.'s, you see, 

Of Bath and Bristol fame indeed 
Were unknown to you and me. 

Much money it appears is coin'd 

By selling a spur'ous kind, 
Which from these firms has much purloind, 

Four circles do them define. 

Concentric ones which postmen all 

Affix on the false design, 
So each and all both great and small 

May easily learn the sign. 



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But oh there is a greater prize 

For which, when the Jews do aim, 

We shall like gods become more wise, 
For Christ in our hearts will reign. 

Our worship now is counterfeit, 

Four circles do it enclose ; 
Satan the human race does cheat, 

With his stamps all full of woes. 

The stamp of truth he has effac'd 
With his crooked ways and means ; 

God's image with them is disgrac'd, 
So King death his harvest gleams 

Help me to bring God's truth to light, 
You are sure to win a prize — 

One that will daily grow more bright 
And more lovely in your eyes. 

A crown you also will obtain, 
One that with this prize is sent. 

O follow Christ in more than name, 
And truth, hope and love cement. 



ON THE DEATH OF KELLY, WHO LOST HIS 

LIFE FROM FALLING FROM A NEW FIRE ESCAPE. 

These great days of invention, 
Do claim some attention, 
For to benefit mankind, 
To all danger men seem blind. 

Kelly thus his life has lost, 
Others with him felt its cost ; 
An escape made life to save, 
Prov'd his pathway to the grave. 



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This steady, promising youth, 
Ascended on it, forsooth, 
To prove that now human skill, 
High in air can mount at will; 

Science making labor light 
Most undoubtedly is right, 
For the rich some daily task, 
Soon will be forced to grasp. 

Labor now is scarce and dear, 
Useful things our hearts do cheer, 
While all reckless, daring plans, 
Surely some arrest demands. 

Sudden deaths and accidents 
Are such every day events, 
That all heedlessly do say, 
Well, we all must die some day. 

Yet these changes, new and great, 
Speak of some transition state ; 
Labor soon the world will rule, 
For this we ourselves must school. 

Money's power begins to wane, 
Honest labor is to reign, 
Dwelling each beneath his vine, 
Love and duty will entwine. 

Grain, the other ruling power, 
Which we now call money's tower, 
Will itself so much extend, 
And will labor so befriend, 

That a penny then will buy 
More than pounds can now supply- 
St. John did this to us reveal, 
When the angel broke the seal. 



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Soon earth's Sabbath is to dawn, 
Hail, with me, its beauteous morn ; 
Let each one at once prepare, 
There is little time to spare. 

So your lamps make haste and trim, 
Quickly banish ev'ry sin, 
When within us Christ does reign, 
We will all have done with pain. 



LINES WRITTEN ON BOAED THE STEAMER 

AS SHE LEFT QUEBEC WHARF, SEPT., 1873. 

Sitting on a boat at the wharf 
Just as she's steaming to be off, 
Levi ferry coming to port, 
Glides in beneath the stately Fort. 

Ships dotting all the coast around, 
A man of War in centre found ; 
Row boats passing beneath our bows, 
Steam whistles making their great rows. 

Three River shoots at first ahead, 
The market boats in turn have fled ; 
The mail boat follows in their wake 
Bearing us all across the Lake. 

Man and his works in constant stir— 
Some wrapt in silk and some in fur. 
Each with some selfish end to gain 
Unwinding death's strong iron chain. 

But round us all those hills and plains 
Their quiet grandeur still maintains ; 
Nothing can move, nor can we reach, 
But yet they us a lesson teach : 









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That strong and mighty is the Power 
That guides us every day and hour, 
"Whose silent watch by day and night 
Keeps every creature here in sight. 

All are now working out his will, 
His great designs we all fulfil ; 
Our actions well predestinate 
The joys or woes that each await. 

Each has the power some good to do, 
But some will Evil still pursue. 
Christ soon will all our ways amend 
Then we will not our God offend. 



AN INCIDENT OF THE 15th NOV., 1873. 

A story I to-day was told, 

When some aid I did implore, 
By one who did withhold his gold, 

For my work he did deplore. 

As useless, quite a waste of time, 

Which no good would ever do, 
Its object christians to combine, 

Desirable, it is true. 

But still a wild and foolish scheme, 
The breach very much too wide : 

Why have you chosen such a theme ? 
Pray set all such views aside. 

For has not each a church to teach, 

And the Bible for their guide, 
To such for any one to preach. 

Shows a great amount of pride. 

So that we cannot tolerate, 

Nor in any way assist, 
Your powers you much overrate, 

Pray at once I say, desist. 



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Monks, priests and friars all have failed 

Christianity to blend ; 
These Satan's kingdom have assailed, 

So you cannot gain your end. 

The tale he did to me relate 

I will briefly here repeat, 
For then it was I did checkmate, 

But he did not own defeat. 

A preacher once of great renown 

Many conquests did achieve, 
His fame was sounded through the town, 

Such a concourse did believe. 

"While really all the work was done 

By a friar on his knees, 
His prayer the hearts of all had won — 

It is prayer that God does please. 

This gives me hope at once, I said, 

I see how I can succeed ; 
My work will yet the churches wed, 

If all at Christ's throne will plead. 

Then carefully peruse its leaves, 
"When together they are bound, 

You may find withs to bind the sheaves 
That now are scattered round. 

And oh ! do they not need to mate 
Is God's truth their glitt'ring pearl , 

In our glorious future state, 
It will radiantly unfurl, 

And shine upon each breast and face, 

So that all we do or say 
"Will leave a holy, heavenly trace, 

Pointing to eternal day. 






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Then Jews awake, my armour try, 
For you I have it prepar'd ; 

No longer ask the reason why, 
God to man his own Son spar'd. 



IN MEMORIAM OF SIE GEORGE CARTIER. 

"What mournful pageant do I see, 

Marching with such measur'd pace ? — 

A body brought across the sea 
To find its last resting-place. 

Sir George Cartier is his name, 

And a Statesman he has been ; 
Proudly he wore the crown of fame — 

Even kneeling to his Queen. 

Why such pomp and ceremony ? — 

It will never make amend 
For grievous want of harmony 

Which hastened on his end. 

Soldiers, Citizens and Priests, 

Drest out with such care and skill, 

Take warning by this scene so triste — 
Guard, guide, and control your will. 

A dazzling sight the Church was made, 

With its Catafalque so great ; 
But he who on it has been laid 

Cares no more for earthly state ! 

Those tapers, with their waning light, 

Remind us of earth's short day ; 
Why prize so much the things of sight ? 

They but chase our souls away ! 



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A Car, both elegant and grand, 
Now receives this box of clay ; 

In front his coat of arms does stand, 
And violet wreaths array. 

The beauteous shamrock, thistle, rose, 

Together on it^entwine ; 
But mother earth does now enclose 

To the tomb you did consign 

This Senator you so respect, 
For his cheerful, honest way, 

Who first did droop through your neglect, 
Upon that last voting day ! 

All creeds together now unite, 
For whate'er the flesh desires ; 

But every spiritual light 

Is still mix'd with earthly fires. 

Or sin would not our peace destroy — 

Our bodies steal away — 
Nor poison all our earthly joy, 

"With its sickness and decay. 

Let prejudice be cast aside, 

At once Christians combine, 
To part with all that earthly pride 

"Which mars God's great design ! 



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A PEAYEE. 
Dear Father help, my spirit break, 
In solitude it often aches ; 
Nothing can make men see or know, 
No matter what I to them show. 

That Christ must come as king to reign, 
To banish sickness, death and pain. 
Jew and Christian find it hard 
To walk like Christ in virtue's garb. 

Knowledge has taught them nature's laws 
Must keep feeding Death's great jaws. 
The earth would not mankind contain, 
Unless Death did his part sustain. 

This is the way they speak or think ; 
All seem to join in one great link. 
Alone on earth I really stand, 
Assailed by strife on every hand. 

Eut surely thou, who madest man — 
Who the whole universe did span — 
Can make the earth our Paradise, 
And banish all and ev'ry vice. 

Our senseless idols all can change, 
Our lifeless images derange ; 
Can give our spirits endless life, 
And make an end of all our strife, 

Unite us then with holy love ; 
Our Faith awaken from above ; 
Fit us to serve and worship thee, 
The great and Mighty One and Three. 

The mind of man with study great 
Knows little of his great estate ; 
How few can all the birds define, 
And class them in their native clime. 



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Then look at ev'ry tree and flower 
Changing their color day and hour. 
Their names are legion ; in each zone, 
How many various kinds are known. 

But, like the rainbow in the sky, 
Their lovely hues live but to die ; 
And none can really comprehend 
The light that does them all transcend. 

O make the human mind expand, 
Thy mysteries to understand, 
Give us the wisdom we require, 
And feed us with electric fire. 

2nd part. 

Then teach me, teach me Lord, I pray, 
How I can thy work array, 
That it may draw the Jew to thee, 
At thy cross to bend the knee. 

To make them feel thou hast been here 
All our hearts with love to cheer, 
To teach them that thy power so great 
Chose to come in low estate. 

The Evil one so well ensnares, 
Hearts so fills with earthly cares, 
That words like mine they do not prize, 
For its truths their spirit tries. 

But if Grod's truth it does contain 
He my efforts will sustain, 
And, in spite of all men's pride, 
"Will disperse it far and wide. 

Pray, Esau's sons, come chaff the wheat, 
Draw Christ from his Heav'nly seat, 
Search with me his precious mine, 
And with glory earth will shine. 



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Come humbly to the throne of grace, 
Worship him who fills all space 
With faith and love, a small return 
Which Christ left his throne to earn. 

Pride is the Evil one's delight, 
For it dims our spirit's sight ; 
Like children try to learn and trust 
That God's plan is wise and just. 

The veil must rise from off your eyes 
Before Jesus you can prize, 
And earth can never Heaven become 
Till your homage Christ has won. 

Then let me urge, yes, beg, entreat, 
That your people all will greet 
The treasures dug from God's own mine, 
Which within this volume shine. 

Then making trial of its truth, 
By imparting it to youth, 
So that the glory it portrays 
May be brought within our gaze. 

For when we act and think aright. 
New joys will our souls delight, 
And with the countless angel throng 
We will mingle heart and song. 







THE ROUND CHURCH. 



THE ROUND CHURCH. 

When I walk around this lovely city, 
And see the churches so new and so grand, 

I cannot help thinking 'tis a pity 
That Christians are a divided band. 

When to Sinai's plains all mankind repair 'd, 

One speech and one language they entertain'd ; 
To build a tower they their bricks prepar'd, 
Whose top should reach heav'n, but God restrain'd. 

The Lord descended and scatter'd men round, 
Confounded their language and changed their 
plan; 

But the Evil Spirit has always found 

New works, new schemes for his enemy man. 

To the Jewish altar in glory God came, 
And gently and kindly bid him obey, 

His own way he chose, his will would not tame, 
Year past after year, obey would not they. 

Then Prophets He sent His will to declare, 
Priests He desired His work to fulfil ; 

His Son, next He spared a way to prepare, 
He suffered, He died, man disobeys still. 

This beautiful world in six days he made, 
Pit place for angels till Satan appeared, 

A plan of Redemption for us God laid, 

A Temple quite round He'll cause to be reared. 

Whose praises and prayers to God will ascend, 
United in heart, in soul and in mind ; 

A ray from God's throne will on it descend, 
And comfort and rest the world will there find. 



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Then Oh, once again, man united will be, 
The spirit of goodness conies to restore ; 

Yes, when he comes he will make evil flee, 
Encircle the Temple with graces three. 

When it is built and man worships in Love, 
When his Faith in his works shine all round, 

The Lord will descend, will come from above, 
And then every thing good will abound. 



JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. 

As perhaps our first pure Holy Catholic Church 
may be a round one, I have thought it well to embel- 
lish my book with a plate of St. Sepulchre's Round 
Church, Cambridge, which is one of the four round 
Churches still remaining in the Kingdom of Great 
Britain. This one at Little Maplestead in Essex was 
dedicated to St. John of Jerusalem and given to the 
Templars by Juliana wife of William, Son of Anderlin, 
steward to Henry II. It was customary during the 
Crusades to build Parish Churches in honor of the 
Holy Sepulchre, hence the origin of its name, and 
the parish in which it was built was called the Jewry : 
this arose from the foolish idea that it was once a Jew- 
ish Synagogue and that the Jews lived there. It is 
supposed to have been erected in the reign of Henry 
1st, between the first and second Crusades, and to be 
the oldest church of its form in England. As this date 
is but a very few years after the order of Templars, it 
was probably not built by them, but it might after- 
wards have got into their possession by gift ; and when 
the order was dissolved in the year 1313 the advow- 
son was given to the priory of Barnwell, at which 



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time it has been supposed the tower was raised a story 
higher for the reception of bells — the chancel being 
then added and dedicated to St. Andrew the Patron of 
Barnwell Priory. The circular part of the church 
is 41 feet in diameter. The writer is indebted to a 
friend for the sketch of the church and its history ? 
and has placed it in this book with the hope that 
round churches fed by five streams of Sacramental 
Grace from our Saviour's wounds, with doors well 
closed against Satan's devices, will like beacon lights 
draw all men unto them, and that the knowledge they 
will impart will make each household a place from 
which will ascend daily offerings of prayer and praise 
so that God will be worshipped in the hearts and homes 
of his people as also in his house with a pure and 
hearty devotion. The labor of years, which has been 
a work of love, the writer now submits to your earn- 
est consideration, sincerely believing that God will 
remove the curse of sin when we all together fulfil 
his righteous will, for he has so said in the following 
and numerous other passages, " Be still and know 
that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen, 
I will be exalted on the earth." — Psalm 46. 

In his days shall the righteous flourish : and abun- 
dance of peace so long as the moon endureth." — Psalm 
lxxii. 7. 

It shall come to pass in the last days that the 
mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in 
the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, 
and all nations shall flow unto it. — Isaiah 2, 

He will swallow up death in victory, and the Lord 
Godwill wipe away tears from off all faces, and the 
rebuke of his people shall he take away from off the 
earth, for the Lord hath spoken it. — Isaiah 25. 



THE BIBLE 



THE BIBLE. 

This book containing all God's will, 

His gift from heaven to man; 
The evil spirit has, and still 

Declares to be a sham 

Give your proof, the atheist cries 

That it from God did come j 
For ev'ry church and sect now tries 

To call itself the one 

That knows and understands God's word, 

That can its truths portray ; 
Each one the voice of God has heard, 

And claims Christ for his stay. 

The Jew believes the first five books, 

And trusts the prophets too ; 
Eut in the Gospel never looks, 

For Christ they never knew. 

A stumbling block we are to them, 

With our divided views ; 
O, that the labour of my pen 

Would christianize the Jews. 

For they will all of us unite, 

God they both love and fear; 
When they acknowledge Christ with might, 

All will be plain and clear. 

Then atheists and heathens, all 

Will learn to know the Lord ; 
The scales from off their eyes will fall, 

They'll say he was the word 



Who faithfully fulfilled the law, 

And taught us how to live, 
Who, the inspired prophets saw, 

And God to earth did give. 

The great love that our God has shown , 
Will then strike sinners dumb, 

God's word will then on earth be known, 
And all will hail God's Son. 

The first three chapters shew how sin 
Brought death on all mankind, 

The last three teach us that our kin, 
The Tree of Life will find. 

When God does in his temple reign, 

In every heart supreme ; 
Our bodies freed from death and pain, 

All glorified will gleam. 

Now let us scan its books to see 
What our God's design can be, 
In condescending to impart 
To his creatures, any chart. 

GENESIS. 

Genesis, the first streak of light 
That Moses, God's scribe did write ; 
Informs us of our origin, 
And our loss of life through sin. 

Six days of labour God proclaimed, 
Adam's work he then ordained ; 
God bid him Eden dress and keep, 
Ere he laid him down to sleep. 

And told him to keep the Sabbath day 
In a blessed, holy way ; 
To worship Him, the Holy One, 
Who the thread of life has spun. 



Then when God Adam disobeyed, 
Satan having him betrayed, 
The race were all condemned to die, 
Evil dimmed man's lovely eye. 

A scheme of mercy to restore, 
£/ife to give us evermore; 
God did Himself for us design, 
Through His Son, the living vine, 

As Adam's seed grew worse and worse, 
•God to Noah did converse. 
And told him he would sweep away 
-Nearly all this worthless clay. 

An ark, God then bid Noah frame, 
His own household to contain ; 
While with water He did baptize 
Earth which so his spirit tries. 

Again mankind did multiply, 
And united they did try 
A tow'r or church to try and make, 
With stairs to lead to heav'n's gate. 

Such human stairs, then God did say, 
Shall not open heaven's way. 
Their languages I shall confuse, 
For my mercies they abuse. 

Abram, the true and faithful priest, 
Now stands out in bold relief; 
His call and promise that his seed, 
To God's favor man will lead. 

Melchizedek, the king divine, 
Blessed him with bread and wine ; 
Our sacred feast we here behold, 
First began in days of old. 



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To their own land Jews will return' 
When they one and all discern 
That Christ was the Messiah true, 
Who will man and earth renew. 

When they accept the sacrifice, 
The life, death and blood of Christ ; 
As the substitute which was slain, 
Man to save from future pain. 

He for mankind does intercede, 
For our future welfare plead ; 
His spirit tries to hold a check, 
And with virtues us to deck. 

This people such great love obtained 
Through the faith Abram sustained; 
When told to sacrifice his child, 
He at once agreed, complied. 

He did not ask the reason why 
His dear son, so young must die? 
But took the knife at once to slay, 
When the angel bid him stay. 

That gentle son we must revere r 
Who without a doubt or fear, 
When Abram took him up on high, 
Bid at once prepare to die. 

The sacrifice before prepared, 
Suddenly to them appeared ; 
The angel to the altar led 
The ram, which they slew instead. 

Abraham in this scene did see 
Christ upon th' accursed tree; 
Then he rejoie'd to see the day 
That taught him the heav'nly way. 



I3ut yet again, ho mourns and sighs, 
His dear wife before him dies ; 
Land he buys from the sons of Heth, 
That she may repose in death. 

There liv'd but Isaac of his race, 
To fulfil the law of grace ; 
Through him he knew, God did decree, 
Man from sin to set quite free. 

The blessings promis'd to his seed, 
He did now believe indeed; 
So Isaac's wife must be procured, 
His descendants here secur'd. 

His servant quickly forth he sent, 
To his kinsmen's house he went ; 
A wife for Isaac to secure, 
One who was both good and pure. 

<Rebekah met him at the well, 
;She ran home his tale to tell, 
And shew the presents he had brought 
To deck her, the bride he sought. 

The hand of God in this they saw, 
.A.nd with them, his will was law ; 
80 at once they gave consent, 
And Eebekah forthwith went 

To meet the one she was to wed, 
Straight was she to Isaac led ; 
The servant told what he had done, 
She the love of Isaac won. 

To Sarah's tent he took his bride, 
In her place she did preside, 
Spreading around a lustrous light, 
Xike.a good and faithul wife. 



The promised heir did not appear^ 
Till he reached his three-score year,. 
Rebekah then had two twin boys. 
Thus did God complete their joys. 

The Lord had to Bebekah said, 
When her mind was full of dread, 
Two sons will soon delight your ejes, 
From whom nations will arise. 

Two nations from them must have sprung,. 
For God's word is surely done ; 
A yoke the younger was to twine, 
Bound the elder for a time. 

Esau the elder soon became 
The great hunter of the plain, 
While Jacob dwelt within his tent, 
Sodding pottage was his bent. 

One day when Esau home returned, 
Hunger sore within him burned, 
For this red pottage he did sell: 
His birthright to hill and dell. 

This son at forty years of age, 
Did two heathen wives engage, 
Causing his parent? grief of mind — 
Thus his future yoke did bind. 

For his mother it did estrange; 
So the plan she did arrange, 
Of dressing Jacob in a skin, 
When he did the blessing win. 

This Yoke will Esau's nation break,. 
When in Faith they all partake 
Of the Holy Fire in the bread, 
And wine on the altar spread .. 






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What Jacob won by treach'rous means, 
Drove him off to foreign scenes, 
From Esau he is forced to fly, 
For he vows that he shall die. 

To Bethuel's house he wends his way, 
Walking on till close of day, 
Some stones for pillows he does pile, 
When to rest he does recline. 

Lonely and weary soon he sleeps, 
Tears may have bedewed his cheeks. 
He dreams he sees a ladder set. 
On which he may to Heaven get. 

Angels on it did come and go, 
They the way already know ; 
The Lord himself above it stood, 
He, the great, the wise, the good. 

Said, like the dust thy seed shall be, 
This land now I give to thee ; 
Through thee shall all the earth be blessed, 
And spread round from east to west. 

Thy footsteps I will guide aright, 
And be to thee a shining light ; 
To this land thou shalt yet return, 
And in it thou shalt sojourn. 

Jacob awaking from his dream, 
Felt that God did reign supreme, 
His stone pillow he there set up, 
Pouring oil upon the top. 

The place he then did Bethel name, ' 
And aloud he did exclaim, 
God's house this stone shall surely be, 
For the gate of Heaven I see. 



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Then Jacob vow'd to God a vow, 
Being overcome with awe, 
That if God would him guard and guide, 
And for all his wants provide, 

When he again in peace return'd, 
Of whatever he had earn'd 
A tenth to God he would restore, 
Praising him for evermore. 

Onward he on his journey went, 
Eastward he his footsteps bent, 
"When some score of miles did divide 
Him from his native fireside. 

He saw reclining in a dell, 
Three flocks of sheep round a well, 
Waiting for Laban's flocks to come — 
Watering had not begun. 

Then to the shepherd he did say, 
Know ye Laban up this way, 
Yes, we know him, he liveth here, 
And his daughter draweth near. 

"Upon the well a great stone lay, 
Which Jacob did roll away, 
When Each el came with Laban's sheep, 
Kissing her he then did weep, 

Saying he was Rebekah's son. 
She at once did homeward run, 
How much amazed she must have been, 
Now, how chang'd to her the scene. 



When Laban heard his daughter's tale, 
He his sister's son did hail 
With a welcome cheerful and kind, 
And for wages did him bind. 






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Now Laban's heart this news made glad, 
For he two fine daughters had, 
Kachel and Leah were their names, 
Kindred then had marriage claims. 

The wages were fair Rachel's hand, 
He of Labandid demand, 
Seven years to serve him he agreed, 
All his flocks and herds to feed. 

When these seven years had expired, 
Jacob of Laban desired 
His youngor daughter for his wife, 
For he lov'd her as his life. 

But Laban Jacob did deceive, 
Giving him, another Eve, 
"Who was Leah his eldest child, 
She that was the tender-eyed. 

He serv'd him other seven years, 
In this narrative appears, 
For Rachel his beloved 's sake, 
And increased in glory great. 

When to Rachel a son was born 

He again did Laban warn, 

That he his service then should leave — 

Laban still to him did cleave. 

A new agreement then was made 
That in herds he should be paid — 
The speckled and the spotted ones 
Jacob's property becomes. 

When mighty grew his flocks and herds 
Jealousy made angry words, 
The time had come for them to part, 
So in secret he did start. 



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To his bom© on his native shore- 
Where he once in days of yore 
His brother Esau did betray, 
"When with skin he did array. 

The third day after Jacob fled 
Laban with his brethren sped, 
For seven daj's they did pursue 
Ere he did appear in view. 

Then Laban's anger passed away, 
For the Lord in dream did say : 
Speak not to Jacob good or ill, 
Thus did God control his will. 

Still they did meet with war of words, 
Caus'd from loss of flocks and herds, 
For Laban said all thine is mine, 
Then a covenant they did sign. 

They gather'd stones into a heap, 
On the top of them did eat, 
Laban gave them Chaldean name, 
Jacob Hebrew, but the same. 

Mizpah, or Beacon let it be, 
To give light to you and me, 
A sacrifice they there did make, 
And of bread they did partake. 

They tarried on the mount all night; 
Early in the morning light 
Laban his children did caress, 
And departing also bless. 

As Jacob now went on his way 
Angels shed a holy ray, 

r* ' -• ~~n hosts did him surround 
A he march'd along the ground. 



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Still when to Esau he draws near 
He is much distress'd with fear, 
Instead of yielding to despair 
He uplifts his heart in prayer. 

Then bands of cattle he does send 
As a present, to amend 
For that great blessing which he won 
From him, Isaac's eldest son. 

His prayers ascended up on high, 
Brought Jehovah from the sky, 
Gave Jacob power to prevail, 
Satan's Kingdom to assaiL 

His b ('other's anger did appease, 
When seven times he bowed his knees, 
Then Esau met him and embrac'd, 
Andreceiv'd his gifts with grace. 

They parted now quite reconcil'd, 
At Schekem the long exil'd, 
Another altar did erect — ■ 
This one, though, God did reject, 

Because his children had done wrongs 
Having slain the great and strong, 
When he was overwhelmed with woe, 
God bid him on to Bethel go. 

Then his household he did command,. 
On their leaving Schekem's Land, 
Their idols each and all to hide, 
Beneath an oak, side by side, 

Again the Lord appeared to him,. 
When he put away this sin, 
Desiring him to change his nam e> 
In view of much, greater fame... 



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For multiply God said he should, 
And the ground on which he stood, 
He gave to Abram and his seed. 
It should all be theirs indeed. 

Of stones a pillar he did pile, 
Streaming down upon them oil '; 
A drink offering he then did pour 
Out of his abundant store. 

Then God his servant Jacob tries, 
Hachel his beloved dies, 
But though his wife from him is torn, 
Unto him a son is born. 

Thus death and life we see combined, 
And to each a place assigned, 
Just as Christ's body for us died, 
That we should be justified. 

Sending his spirit life to give, 
That hereafter we may live, 
Like Jesus pure and without guile, 
Free from all that can defile. 

When this spiritual reign begins, 
We will vanquish Satan's sins ; 
Decay and death will not then spoil, 
All our labour and our toil. 

PART THE SECOND. 

The sacred writer further states, 
That Jacob again migrates 
With his great and mighty band 
To Hebron, his father's land. 

Then Isaac old and full of days, 
The sad debt of nature pays, 
Esau and Jacob him inter 
In his father's sepulchre. 



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The brothers now do separate, 
Because they are so rich and great r 
That they cannot together dwell, 
So they part and say farewell. 

In Edom Esau spread his tent, 
When from Canaan's land he went, 
Great dukes and princes from him sprung,. 
And Priest Reul was his son. 

He was the first who bore the name, 
This Priest of Midian's plain, 
His seven daughters, we are told, 
Brought the sheep into the fold. 

One of them Moses' heart did win, 
When he fled from Egypt's King, 
So Zipporah forthwith he wed, 
And a shepherd's life he led. 

But Jacob dwelt in Canaan's land, 
With twelve sons at hie right hand ; 
Joseph and Benjamin he lov'd, 
All the other sons above. 

These were his own dear Rachel's sons, 
They were his most cherish 'd ones. 
For Joseph a fine coat was made, 
With colours of every shade. 

His brethren then did jealous grow, 
Soon they did their envy show ; 
He dreams two dreams which seem to prove 
He above them yet should move. 

These did arouse their pride and hate, 
They said he should not be great ; 
Beign over them, he never should r 
Thus together they did brood. 



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While feeding of their fathers' flocks, 
Satan whispering thus knocks, 
"When poor young Joseph does appear, 
Sent by Israel he draws near. 

Together they agree to slay 
A beast devour'd we will say, 
But Reuben said, Thou shalt not kill, 
His blood we must never spill. 

Into a pit they had him cast, 
When some Ishmalites went past ; 
They decided it would be well, 
To these people him to sell. 

Then twenty silver pieces they 
For him did agree to pay, 
And with them to Egyptian ground 
Joseph as a slave was bound. 

To Potiphar these traders sold 
This young man again for gold, 
His overseer he then became, 
Till his wife did falsely blame. 

Then into prison he was thrust, 
But as he was wise and just, 
The keeper put into his care, 
The prisoners and their fare. 

Two servants did the King offend, 
To this prison he did send, 
It seems, the captain of the guard. 
Assigned both to Joseph's ward. 

Now each of these men had a dream : 
They were sighing for a gleam 
Of what it did to them poriend, 
Fearing it foretold their end, 



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When Joseph brought their morning meal, 
And their meaning did reveal, 
For he was spiritually wise, 
Because he God's laws did prize. 

The butler in his dream did see 
A great vine with branches three, 
Which buds and blossoms did produce, 
And fine grapes for Pharoah's use. 

King Pharoah's cup he did behold, 
And in his own hand did hold ; 
He press'd the grapes into the cup, 
Then to Pharoah gave it up. 

The meaning Joseph did him give, 
Was that he again should live 
In King Pharoah's mansion great, 
Three days would him reinstate. 

Then, when with thee all things go well, 
My sad story you can tell ; 
In prison I should not remain, 
For no crime my soul does stain. 

But stolen from my Hebrew home, 
I am in this land alone ; 
With no one here to plead for me, 
Or to try to set me free. 

The baker then his dream relates, 
In the hope some good awaits ; 
Such as Joseph had just foretold, 
The king's butler should be told. 

Upon my head three baskets white, 
With bake meats above in sight ; 
While birds did eat them from my head, 
Though for Pharoah they were spread. 



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In three days thou shalt cease to bo, 
Hanging then upon a tree ; 
The birds shall peck thy flesh away, 
This is what thy dream doth say. 

And each of these men met the fate 
Joseph said did them await ; 
To celebrate the king's birthday, 
Life and death they did portray. 

The prison gates did open wide, 
And they came out side by side ; 
The baker to be hang'd was sent, 
Joyful forth the other went 

To dwell again in Pharoah's hall, 
And to answer to his call ; 
Joseph's release he never sought, 
On him he did cast no thought, 

Till at the end of two full years, 
In dream to the king appears 
Seven fat-flesh'd and full-favor'd kine, 
Which in meadow did recline, 

When seven ill-favor 'd and quite lean 
Soon appear upon the scene; 
The fat, the lean ones food supplies, 
They devour before his eyes. 

Another dream his senses chain, 
For he wakes and sleeps again ; 
Seven rank and good ears of corn, 
To one stalk seem hanging on. 

When seven thin and blasted ears 
Suddenly to him appears ; 
These, the good ones do soon devour, 
For like evil, they had pow'r. 



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In the morn the king sat in state, 
With magicians wise and great ; 
In vain he did to them appeal, 
They could not his dreams reveal. 

Then the butler recall'd to mind 
Joseph once to him so kind, 
And to the king he did repeat 
Where he did with Joseph meet, 

And how truly he did explain 
Dreams which gave his servants pain ; 
The king for Joseph forthwith sent, 
To interpret what was meant 

By his two dreams, none could define, 
Though he felt they were a sign ; 
Which some great trouble did portend, 
And to which he should attend. 

At once from prison he did call 
This man, wise above them all ; 
In haste he does himself array, 
And to Pharoah wend his way. 

His dreams to him he now does state, 
His uneasiness was great ; 
You can interpret them they say, 
Quickly do so then I pray 

With help from the God I fear. 
I will make it plain and clear j 
For we can nothing truly know, 
But what G-od does to us show. 

The kine and corn are both the same, 
The one meaning will explain : 
The kine so good that you did see, 
Seven plentiful years to be. 
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The lean and blasted are to show 
Seven years when nought shall grow ; 
A? fifth part of the plenty ears, 
Yon mnst gather, it appears, 

That for the famine long and sore, 
Yon may have an ample store j 
To carry out this enterprise, 
Find a man discreet and wise, 

And place him over Egypt's land, 
All the corn at his oommand, 
With officers who shall provide, 
And a fifth part set aside. 

That when the seven good years are past, 
Your corn may be made to last 
Till those seven sad years are fled, 
Which all now have cause to dread. 

So Joseph rose to glory great 
Second only in estate 
To Pharoah Egypt's Mighty King 
To him all the corn they bring. 



And to Joseph the king did say, 
All to thee shall homage pay ; 
My signet-ring I give to thee, 
Thou shalt my great ruler be. 

Array'd in beauteous linen white 
With pure golden chain in sight, 
Thou shalt in a chariot ride, 
A priest's daughter for your bride. 

For Gk)d's spirit in you does shine, 
Wisdom round you does entwine ; 
As you have warn'd, so you will save 
From a sad, untimely grave, 






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"While Joseph gather'd up the corn, 
Unto him two sons were born ; 
Ephraim and Manasseh nam'd, 
He chief ruler was proclaim'd, 

To Pharoah all the people ran 
"When the years of dearth began ; 
He did to Joseph them commend, 
Bidding them to him attend, 

For he would in this crisis guide, 
His storehouses open wide j 
For corn enough they did contain, 
All his people to maintain. 

This famine spread itself around, 
Hard and sterile was the ground j 
Egypt alone had corn in store, 
Thanks to Joseph and his lore. 

So Joseph's brethren thither went, 
By their father Jacob sent, 
That they might corn for him procure, 
For much want they did endure. 

These ten who Joseph had betray'd 
See this ruler well array'd ; 
But never dream he is the one 
That their sin should bid them shun. 

To him they throw themselves prostrate, 
And their wants at once relate ; 
He sees in them his treach'rous foes, 
They the cause of all his woes. 

He says with anger in his eyes, 
Well I know that you are spies ; 
Our barren fields you come to see, 
That, I tell you must not be. 



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Then they quickly to him reply, 
No I we do not come to spy, 
We are twelve sons of one man, true, 
All of whom are here but two. 

The youngest we did leave at home, 
One is not, to this we own : 
Till I have proof of what you say, 
Here you must in prison stay. 

Three days in ward they did remain 
Ere their object they did gain ; 
Then corn in plenty Joseph sends, 
Treating these his foes, as friends. 

But Simeon he does retain, 
Causing them much grief and pain ; 
Till they return, and with them bring 
Their young brother Benjamin. 

ZEach finds his money in his sack, 
When to Canaan they got back ; 
This fills their mind with awe and fear, 
When to Jacob they draw near. 

They to their father do return, 
Telling him of their sojourn ; 
He mourns and says, you me bereave, 
Why do thus my children leave. 

Joseph gone, Simeon away, 
Benjamin he wants, you say; 
He is my very dearest one, 
No, you cannot have this son. 

Then Eeuben to his father prays, 
But he heeds not what he says ; 
He offers his two sons in trust, 
For to Egypt go he must. 



The subject was again resum'd, 
When their corn was all consum'd, 
Jacob said go again and buy 
Corn for us before we die. 

So Judah spake to him and said, 
Egypt's ruler we much dread ; 
He said when you return for corn, 
Bring me back thy youngest born, 

That I may feel that you are true, 
And a shepherd's life pursue — 
He seem'd to think that we were spies,, 
And that all we said were lies. 

I will be surety for the lad ; 
To want food is very sad, 
On me for ever be the blame, 
If you do not him reclaim. 

Consent at last the father gave, 
Saying, him from danger save, 
The grave my body will receive, 
If of him you me bereave. 

Then laden well with fruits and spice, 
And of other things the choice, 
With double money in their hand, 
Off they start corn to demand. 

And when to Joseph they appoar'd, 
That great man they so much fear'd,. 
Seeing again his brother dear, 
Scarcely could restrain a tear. 

Together we shall dine to-day, 
He to them at once did say ; 
To Joseph's house they then were led 
When they had their asses fed. 



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They forthwith to the steward spake, 
For with dread they now did shake, 
Double money pray now receive, 
To onr sacks our gold did cleave. 

But he quickly to them replied : 
God your sacks with gold supplied, 
Here is Simeon you left behind, 
Keep the treasure you did find. 

As soon as Joseph home did come, 
On their knees themselves they flung 
Thus bowing down they did fulfil 
Dreams which envy did instil. 

Your father, is his health still good, 
An old man I understood ? 
They reply, he is yet alive, 
And this is his youngest child. 

When to Benjamin he drew near, 
His own mother's son so dear, 
With love his heart did overflow, 
So a blessing did bestow. 

To hide the tears upon his cheek, 
He did then his chamber seek ; 
But for a time he must restrain, 
Even though it gave him pain. 

Bidding his servants set on bread, 
He return'd to see them fed ; 
Each according to his birthright, 
Sat around his board in sight. 

He messes from before him sent, 
Each one according to descent ; 
But to the youngest, dearest one, 
Five times greater was the sum. 



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Then Joseph bid his steward put 
In the youngest's sack his cup, 
And in the others what they paid 
On the top should there be laid. 

They early rose and sped away,, 
Almost at the dawn of day, 
But Joseph's steward them o'ertook, 
For his cup to search and look.. 

He did them all accuse and say, 
Why take Joseph's cup away, 
The one with which he does divine, 
And from which he takes his wine. 

This accusation they deny, 
Then they all do him defy, 
And beg that he will call to mind, 
Gold they in their sacks did find. 

And which they did to him return, 
Aught to steal they all would spurn, 
In any sack should it be found, 
To my Lord we will be bound. 

And he must die who did it steal, 

His life such an act should seal. 

The sacks are search'd, their hearts must burn, 

Benjamin awaits his turn. 

Lo ! in his sack the cup they find, 
Pear and sorrow fill their mind. 
When Joseph's house they all do reach, 
Bowing down they him beseech* 

Joseph then met them, it does say> 
Saying, in decided way, 
What deed is this that you have done, 
Now I claim this youngest son. 



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As my servant he shall remain, 
The rest I will not detain. 
Knew yon not that I could divine, 
"When you took that cup of mine. 

Then Judah said, keep me I pray, 
This youth must not, cannot stay ; 
Our father's heart will surely break, 
If his home he does forsake. 

I am the surety for the lad, 

He one brother only had, 

Who from his home has stray'd away, 

I for him am bound to stay. 

Then let me to your mind recall, 
That you told us, one and all, 
To bring this youth when we did come, 
Or you all of us would shun. 

My father the old man will die 
If you do not hear my cry ; 
In mercy this from you I crave, 
Save, oh ! save him, from the grave. 

This pleading was not all in vain, 
Joseph could no more refrain ; 
He bid his servants from him go, 
"While he made his brothers know 

He was the one that they had sold 
Into Egypt's land for gold ; 
That the trials he had endur'd 
Peace and plenty had secur'd. 

He to his brethren then did say : 
Come quite near to me I pray, 
I am Joseph whom ye did sell, 
Grieve not for now all is well. 



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God sent me here corn to provide, 
Through the famine all to guide ; 
To preserve life in this fair land, 
God has plac'd me in command. 

My father, go and bring with haste, 
See that you no time do waste ; 
Tell him that Joseph bids him come, 
Egypt's lord is his own son. 

To bring his children, flocks and herds, 
Say that these are Joseph's words, 
In Goshen he must come and dwell, 
I will there maintain him well. 

All my glory to him relate, 

In this kingdom I am great : 

He with his brothers then did weep. 

Kissing each upon the cheek. 

Their cruelty he thus forgave, 
And Ghristlike their lives did save. 
We see in him the type of One, 
Who for us has borne the sum. 

Of God's great wrath to guilty man, 
And when all accept his plan, 
He leaves his mansions in the sky, 
Man and earth to glorify. 

A greater Joseph far than he, 
In Thee, Saviour, I see; 
Thou hast plenty of corn in store, 
Come and open out the door. 

The famine now begins to dawn. 
Sell to Esau's sons thy corn ; 
Thy Church in glory they'll array, 
Though they once did thee betray. 






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Thy doctrine they will all entwine, 
When they know thou art Divine j 
Thy Christian virtues all display, 
And to thee such homage pay. 

That heathen nations far and near, 
In thy Temple will appear, 
And spread thy sacred holy feast 
In the countries of the East. 

Thy cup containing purest wine, 
Drawn from thee the living vine, 
Will cleanse and purify our souls— 
To our lips be as live coals. 

The Temple which was rent in twain, 
When our sins Christ did sustain, 
Will be cemented well with love, 
And the Spirit, like the dove, 

Will on 1 ; the altar spread his wings 
Like the former Cherubims, 
And God's own great and wondrous light, 
Will again appear in sight. 

The fame of Joseph's brethren sped, 
And new lustre on him shed ; 
Then Pharoah unto him did say, 
Wagons send for them I pray. 

Your father and his household all, 
Young^and old, the great and small, 
Must come and dwell in Egypt's Land, 
All the best they can command. 

Asses laden with corn and bread, 
As the King to him had said, 
With many other things as good, 
Be to Jacob sent for food. 



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Changes of raiment did present 
To his brethren ere they went, 
Five changes to the youngest one, 
And a very handsome sum. 

To Canaan they did wend their way, 
And to Jacob they did say : 
Joseph thy son is yet alive, 
And in Egypt he does thrive, 

As Governor he rules the land. 
This he could not understand, 
He seemed to fear they did deceive, 
His heart could not this believe. 

But when they told him Joseph's words, 
Bidding him, with flocks and herds, 
To Goshen, go and there to dwell, 
Truth he knew they did him tell. 

His spirit in him did revive, 
Hearing Joseph was alive ; 
See him he must before he dies, 
So to him at once he flies. 

As he his journey does pursue, 
He stops to give God his due ; 
His offerings reach his throne above, 
And he answers him in love. 

Fear not, he says, go on your way, 
I will guard and be thy stay ; 
A nation great shall spring from thee, 
Joseph you again shall see. 

He and seventy of his seed 
On this journey did proceed, 
At Goshen Joseph did him meet, 
And upon his neck did weep. 



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Then to Pharoah he did explain, 
That they all from Canaan came, 
As shepherds they had always been, 
Their flocks, they had brought to glean. 

Egyptians scorn'd a shepherd's life, 
So, perhaps in dread of strife, 
In Goshen they did all remain, 
Spreading round o'er all the plain. 

Tive of his brethren he did bring, 
And present unto the King, 
His father also Joseph brought, 
And King Pharoah's favor sought. 

What his your age, the King did say, 
Jacob tell me now I pray ? 
Six score and ten years I have seen, 
Few and evil they have been. 

King Pharoah then did Jacob bless. 
Joseph gave him to possess 
The best of land inEamases, 
Where his mind would be at ease. 

And with the very best of fare, 
Nourish'd all his kin with care ; 
Though the famine was very sore, 
Never failing was their store. 

Money and cattle, herds and lands, 
Egyptians placed in Joseph's hands, 
For he alone had corn for sale — 
Without corn death must prevail. 

When the sad seven years were past 
He foretold the dearth should last, 
They sought him that they might procure 
Seed that would good crops ensure. 



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Then Joseph to them all did say, 
For seed I buy you to-day, 
A fifth of the corn you agree, 
Pharoah's shall in future be. 

The people with one voice declare 
He had kept them from despair, 
Yes, he had saved a nation's lives 
Through his wondrous enterprise. 

At once this scheme they all embrace 
Thus he bought up all the race, 
A fifth from them he should obtain 
As a right the king would claim. 

In Egypt's land here, it appears, 
Jacob lived for seventeen years, 
Then feeling that the time drew nigh 
That he must prepare to die, 

He called for Joseph to consent 
That his body should be sent 
To his father's burying place, 
There to rest with his own race, 

That altogether they might rise 
To obtain their Heav'nly prize. 
Yes, Abram, Isaac, Jacob all, 
There will hear the angel's call. 

The angel that Jews now reject, 
Is the one they may expect ; 
"When he returns his own to free, 
Their Messiah they will see. 

The Spirit now my pen employs 
To remind you of the joys 
That God will on his people pour, 
When the time of trial's o'er. 



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Then all, with cheerful heart and voice, 
That have made God's Truth their choice 
Shall meet the Saviour in the air, 
"With the angels bright and fair. 

Seven score and seven was Jacob's age 
When he vanished from earth's stage ; 
He grew infirm, his eye grew dim, 
Ere he paid the debt of sin. 

When on his deathbed he was laid, 
He to his son Joseph said : 
The blessings God bestowed on me 
I now give to thine and thee. 

Some pages of Scripture show 

That on him he did bestow 

The land where God to him appear'd, 

When through virtue's paths he steer'd. 

Joshua says that Joseph's land 
Bethel's altar did command j 
St. John describes to us Jacob's well, 
Near Sychar in Joseph's dell. 

'Tis plain, what Jacob most did prize 
He did give at his demise 
To Joseph, with the prophecy 
That his seed should occupy 

It, at some far off distant time, 
Thus fulfilling God's design, 
That Abram's seed should reinstate 
Christ on earth in glory great, 

He now his other sons does call, 
To tell them what shall befall 
Each of their Tribes in future days, 
Just according to their ways. 






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Reuben, thou my power and might, 
Parted with what was thy right, 
By falling into Satan's snare, 
Which he for thee did prepare. 

Simeon and Levi's cruelty 
Caused a sad atrocity — 
In their anger they did betray, 
Yes, and afterwards did slay. 

These through the earth shall be dispersed, 
For their anger they were cursed ; 
Like Keuben, sin did in them dwell, 
So they never can excel. 

To Judah all the rest must bend, 
On him they must all attend, 
For Shiloh from him should appear, 
Gathering from far and wear. 

Those whose garments in blood washed white, 
Will appear to claim their right ; 
To enjoy pure and happy days, 
Learning more of wisdom's ways. 

Our Shiloh has from Judah sprung, 
Jesus from that Tribe did come, 
All these his own did him disown, 
Still he is to them unknown. 

God's sceptre they do still maintain, 
And to Moses' laws lay claim ; 
When they in Christ their Shiloh see, 
Earth will a pure Eden be. 

Zebulon shall a haven be, 
Bordering upon the sea, 
Issacher, like a couching ass, 
Must pay tribute as a class. 



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Pan was crafty and serpentlike, 
Prom the rear would always strike ; 
A warlike troop from Gad should spring, 
Which to order he should bring. 

Asher shall of the best partake, 
Koyal dainties he shall make. 
Swift as a hind is Naphtali, 
With good words his way will ply. 

How sorely Joseph thou wert tried, 
But with strength thou wert supplied ; 
Thy father's blessing did prevail, 
When temptation did assail. 

Thou art really a goodly tree, 
Yery fruitful shalt thou be ; 
Many great blessings shall descend, 
And around thy paths attend. 

Benjamin thou wilt seize thy prey, 
Like a wolf at peep of day ; 
At night the spoil you will divide 
With the members of your tribe. 

And with these blessings Jacob said, 
Bury me when I am dead, 
Within the cave in Abram's field, 
Then his life to God did yield. 

Joseph his father did embrace, 
Shedding tears upon his face ; 
The brothers must have all withdrawn, 
He alone is there to mourn. 

The body now must be embalmed, 
And so when his sorrow calmed, 
The physician he desires 
To arrange as it requires. 



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Forty da} T s did his mourning last ; 
Then wo read when these were past, 
That he did from the King demand 
Time to go to Canaan's land, 

His father's body to inter 
In the very sepulchre 
Where Abraham and Isaac lie, 
Which these ancestors did buy. 

Then Pharoah gave them leave to go, 
He had sworn it must be so ; 
His servants, elders he did send, 
With his own they him attend 

This long and mournful cavalcade 
Seven days at Atab stayed 
Ere they proceeded on their way, 
Jacob's mandate to obey. 

Their work performed, they all return, 
And in Egypt they sojourn j 
But Joseph's brethren are in dread, 
As their father now is dead, 

That Joseph will their sin repay, 
So they send to beg and pray 
That he will not their sins recall, 
But forgive them one and all. 

Joseph sweetly to them replies, 
With tears flowing from his eyes, 
To save much people was I sent, 
God wrought good from ill intent. 

Be comforted and never fear, 
You and yours to me are dear ; 
I will nourish them and thee, 
From this sin I set you free. 
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In course of time Joseph expir'd : 
Like his father he desir'd 
That to Canaan he be convey'd 
In his father's tomb be laid. 



EXODUS. 

That generation passed away, 
Pharoah nature's debt did pay, 
So fruitful had Israel become 
That -Egypt they overrun. 

Another king now did arise 
Who this people did despise, 
Of Joseph he did nothing know, 
So he them oppressed with woe. 

Their sons he bid the midwives kill 
But they feared to do such ill ; 
So still this people multiplied 
God the midwives well supplied. 

Pharoah seeing they disobey 'd, 
Had this charge upon them laid, 
That infant sons should all be drown'd 
This race did too much abound. 

Then the deliverer was born, 
One that Israel did adorn, 
His parents, both of Levi's tribe, 
For his first three months did hide. 

And in an ark of rushes made, 
On the river left the babe, 
With sister standing by to see 
What the infant's fate should be. 



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Pharoah's daughter came down to bathe, 
And this infant sho did save. 
The sister asked her should she find 
One the child to take and mind. 

To this the princess did agree, 
And its mother she did see, 
Promising wages her to pay, — 
She the babe did take away. 

Moses she said should be his name, 
And when older did reclaim, 
When to the palace he was sent 
"Well he knew his real descent. 

His brethren's burdens made him groan 
When they were to him made known j 
He one of Egypt's sons did smite, 
And from Egypt took his flight. 

For Pharoah sought this man to slay, 
So in Midian, hid away, 
A peaceful life did Moses lead, 
For he Jethro's sheep did feed. 

And leading through the desert side 
He to Horeb did them guide, 
There he beheld a bush in flame, 
Not consuming it was plain. 

He turned to see the reason why 
God said Moses " Here am I," 
This is my holy mercy seat, 
Take thy shoes from off thy feet. 

And Moses trembling, greatly feared 
For the Lord's Himself appeared 
Telling him he would Israel save, 
No more should they work and slave 



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As bondmen under Egypt's laws, 
He should now espouse their cause, — 
To Pharoah, Israel's bitter foe, 
Hasten now at once and go. 

To this then Moses thus replies : 
All my words he will despise, 
Who am I, such a work to do, 
How can I to Pharaoh sue ? 

But G-od said, I will be thy stay, 
This my token thou shalt say, 
My name is " I AM that I AM," 
Man and earth at once I span. 

The Fathers were my children three, 
Their seed you I send to free ; 
My presence will your footsteps lead, 
Will provide for every need. 

The wonders which I will perform 
Egypt's king will much alarm, 
At last he will them all release, 
Bidding them to go forth in peace. 

All deck'd with jewels rich and rare, 
Borrowed from th' Egytian fair, — 
Moses said, I can naught achieve 
Unless they in me believe. 

Take now thy rod, the Lord did say, 

It shall to Israel convey 

The knowledge that my strength and might 

Have prepared you for the fight. 

For when you cast it on the ground 
It will you and them astound, 
Then as a serpent with a tail 
It will cause you to prevail. 






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Proving that I do give you aid 
Satan's kingdom to invade, 
Your hand shall also be a sign 
That your mission is divine. 

"When first you draw it from your breast 
Leprous white, it shall attest 
To the destroying power of sin, 
Desolating all within. 

Then when you bring it forth again 
New life shall flow through each vein, 
Type of the Christian's second birth, 
And a sinless life on earth. 

Then if these signs shall not convince 
Israel nor Egypt's prince, 
Another miracle behold 
My great power shall enfold. 

Some water on the river pour, 
On and round about the shore, 
To blood the water shall be changed, 
All is now for thee arranged. 

How plainly this did specify 
That Christ for mankind should die ; 
His blood and water shod for man, 
Was God's own appointed plan. 

Still Moses very kindly pleads, 
That his work his strength exceeds, 
He is not eloquent, he says, 
For some help he begs and prays. 

Then God in anger did command . 
Aaron to be his right hand, 
To speak the words he did approve, 
Such as Pharoah's heart may move. 



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But if these wonders all shall fail, 
And at thee this king shall rail, 
Say that his first-horn God will slay 
Unless Israel go away. 

Jacob's descendants soon believe, 
Moses and Aaron they receive 
As men who from the Lord were sent, 
Then to Pharoah forth they went, 

Saying, Israel's God demands 
Their sojourn in other lands, 
To make for him a sacred feast 
In the wilderness at least. 

Who is the Lord I should obey ? 
To let Israel from me stray. 
Of Israel's God I nothing know, 
I will never let them go. 

But this king's heart like flint became, 
And he did aloud proclaim 
That Israel should much more endure 
This would them to him secure. 






This very wicked, hardened king 
Thus did tears from Israel wring, 
He ten of God's great plagues did see 
Before Israel he set free. 

But this royal sinner it is plain, 
Whose soul so much guilt did stain, 
The God Jehovah never knew, 
So for pardon he may sue. 

Still the hardening of his heart 
Is enough to make us start, 
To bid us watch and guard the gate 
That we may avoid his fate. 



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Every little tempting sin 

We allow to enter in 

Gives Satan in our hearts a place, 

Hides from us our Father's face. 

We cannot say we do not know 
The great love he did bestow, 
His overflowing streams of grace 
Ought to satisfy our race. 

Yet our murmuring day by day 
Like this people by the way, 
Prove that we sadly set aside 
He who would us guard and guide. 

And that God's grand and mighty scheme, 
Man from sin to try and wean, 
Has not produced the tree of life 
On account of Christian strife. 

If we God's garden would explore, 
Drive the angels from the door, 
Who with a fearful flaming sword, 
This our wondrous treasure hoard, 

We must, united hand in hand, 
Against Satan take a stand, 
And bravely meet our dreadful foe. 
With one well directed blow. 

The miracles that Moses wrought 
Should to Egypt's king have taught 
That there was One whose power divine 
Would accomplish his design. 

Could take away from his control 
Each and every human soul 
Who would Him worship and obey, 
Sin and evil chase away. 



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But pride had so destroyed his mind 
That he was both deaf and blind, 
He sunk himself in depths of woe, 
Ere he did his Maker know. 

"When Pharoah perished with his host, 
Moses had good cause to boast ; 
It was a terrible defeat, 
Moses' triumph was complete. 

But to the Lord in notes of praise, 
Moses' voice at once does raise, 
With joy they sing as they advance, 
Yes, and with their timbrels dance, 

A prophetess we there behold, 
Leading on the young and old ; 
Together they do dance and sing 
Praises to their God and King. 






The plagues that God did Pharoah send 
Ought to make us apprehend, 
That all should faithfully enquire 
"What it is God does require. 

For Adam's sin our blood has changed, 
Our whole system has deranged ; 
And when the Nile with blood did flow, 
It did this most plainly show. 

The second plague did well portray 
Mankind's gradual decay ; 
For we would never waste away 
If we walked in wisdom's way. 

Then the land was filled, with lice, 
Such are found in haunts of vice ; 
"Where Satan does his agents prime, 
Ere he leads them on to crime. 






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Great swarms of flies their vision dim, 
This is the effect of sin, 
Which slowly o'er the senses steal, 
Then the eye does firmly seal. 

King Pharoah tells anothor lie, 
So the Egyptians' cattle die ; 
His very dreadful stubborn will 
Makes his heart rebellious still. 

As Pharoah did still further try 
To resist the earnest cry, 
That Moses did through Aaron make, 
Man and beast do both partake 

Of the plague of boils and blains, 
Still he Moses' prayer disdains ; 
He through the path of sin must steer, 
It is now too late to vere. 

Three curses sin did round us bind, 
Upon beast, the earth, mankind ; 
The whole of these do now bewail, 
For God sends a grievous hail. 

A swarm of locusts then are sent, 
Which infest each house and tent ; 
They ate up all the holy seed 
Which this people so did need. 

Then did idolatry prevail, 

And light altogether fail ; 

For three whole days black darkness reigns, 

Ere King Pharoah's power wanes. 

Egyptians then began to see, 
Israelites they must set free ; 
To save themselves from further pain, 
They their favor try to gain. 



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And for their journey to prepare, 
Send them jewels rich and rare ; 
Moses then, Israel did command, 
To prepare to leave that land. 

And God a sacrifice to pay, 
Each household a lamb to slay ; 
But if the family be few, 
One lamb will suffice for two. 

"No spot or blemish must defile, 
Like a heart devoid of guile ; 
This God's most holy, sacred feast 
Requires purity at least. 

Then in the evening when you kill, 
Its blood on the side-posts spill, 
And also on the top, above, 
As a token of my love. 

With justice I will mercy blend, 
For the cross will you defend j 
When my destroying angel comes, 
Dwellings marked with blood he shuns. 

Begin at once, my lamb prepare, 
With fire roast it, and beware 
That not one fragment does remain — 
Either eat or burn with flame. 

With loins well girded, shoes on feet, 
Staff in hand, then quickly eat ; 
For thus my Passover shall be 
A great means of grace to thee. 

For Egypt's first-born now must die, 
And at midnight they will cry ; 
The king will then my tribes release, 
For his thraldom now must cease. 



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What Moses said, did all take place, 
That night they all left in haste ; 
Arise and go, were Pharoah's words, 
"With your cattle, flocks and herds. 

Six hundred thousand forthwith went 
On foot, out of Egypt sent ; 
Their father Joseph's bones did bare, 
As they formerly did sware. 

Unleavened bread they with them take, 
Which they on their journey bake ; 
Their dough and kneading troughs they bound, 
In their clothes, their shoulders round. 

In pillar of a cloud by day, 
The Lord led them on their way ; 
In a pillar of fire by night, 
He dispensed to them his light. 

And yet perceive they greatly fear, 
When King Pharoah's host drew near ; 
Let us, they say, become his slaves, 
Ere he sends us to our graves. 

Moses alone has faith to see 
They should perish in the sea ; 
He knew well sinners could not tread 
Where he had his people led 

Without the very means of grace, 
Christ designed for all men's race ; 
The Lord he says will for you fight, 
Stand and see his power and might. 

Then he, who wind and seas obey 
Swept the king and host away ; 
The Lord this people then did fear, 
And his servant Moses hear. 



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As long as all their paths were smooth , 
They with reverence did move ; 
But their nmrmurings they repeat, 
When they bitter water meet. 

This people then to Moses cry, 
He does to the Lord apply; 
A tree the Lord did to him show, 
Which he was from him to throw 

Into the waters, them to heal, 
All their virtues to reveal ; 
He did so, and it made them sweet, 
God's first text he did repeat.* 

And when God's laws we keep from choice, 
Hear and heed his still small voice; 
This tree will from the waters rise, 
And its fruit will make us wise. 

Then should we in their Elim camp, 
With this never-failing lamp ; 
Beneath its palms we will repose, 
Free from all our present woes. 

From thence, their journey they pursue, 
Having Sinai in view, 
And when they reach the land of sin, 
Again murmurings begin 

Because their bread did seem to fail, 
They their leader did assail ; 
God's glory Israel could not see, 
Though for them he dried the sea. 

They worshipped at a worldly shrine, 
Ever ready to repine ; 
Are not Christians much the same, 
Daily, also, they complin. 



* Evodusxv, 26 



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Manna and quails then God did rain, 
This his people to sustain ; 
There fell each day a certain rate, 
For each one an omer weight. 

But on the sixth day they did find 
Double portion of each kind ; 
That a holy, heavenly ray 
Might pervade the Sabbath-day. 

Our souls on that day should commune 
With our God, the great Triune, 
"Who all his wonders will disclose 
When we on him do repose. 

For God does still for man produce, 
All things needful for his use, 
Though now scattered far and wide, 
Earth does food for all provide. 

But like the Israelites of old, 
We our worship still withhold ; 
Our various idols intervene, 
And God's glory from us screen. 

Again this people Moses chide. 
He does to his God confide, 
If water he does not supply, 
They will stone him till he die. 

To God he lifts his heart in prayer, 
Asking him his life to spare. 
To Moses God at once accedes, 
Hears and answers when he pleads. 

The Eock of Horeb bids him smite, 
With his rod he does it strike, 
Fresh water then from it did flow, 
Thus God's power he did show. 



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A type of Christ the smitten Rock, 
"Who, when all around did mock, 
Did streams of living water yield, 
Which sin hitherto has sealed. 

Amalek now appears in sigh + , 
Prepared with Israel to fight ; 
Moses in Joshua confides ; 
O'er their army he presides. 

Go forth and fight, is his command, 
While I stand with rod in hand, 
With Hur and Aaron on the hill, 
You our enemies will kill. 

When Moses hands he upward held, 
Joshua with sword expelled, 
Eut when he weary let them down, 
Fortune on them seem'd to frown. 

So Hur and Aaron lent their aid, 
And his hands they firmly staid, 
This union caused them to prevail 
Over him who did assail. 

And when our Christian Churches three 
All entwine into a tree, 
Our prayers will reach Jehovah's throne, 
And produce the missing stone, 

Whose light will us electrify, 
Men and earth quite purify ; 
The banner then which waves around 
Will Great Amalek confound. 



Christian Pilgrims you must now awake, 

And begin at once together to rake, 

Thorns, briars and weeds, now hid from our gaze, 

Will soon be expos'd by God's holy ray. 






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A broken cistern no water can hold, 
Such is the state of the Christian fold, 
Its truths are all scattered here and there, 
Every one claiming an equal share. 

The devil has done his best to divide 
The Christian Churches on every side, 
But the Church of God must united be, 
And from Satan's devices set quite free. 

There's a hand that moves, a mysterious hand, 
Who sprinkles his seed in every land, 
Who chooses a humble servant, 'tis true, 
To purify, alter and make things new. 

That servant is ready and willing both 

To suffer, work, and has plighted her troth 

To spend the energies G-od has given 

To bind the Church with the cords of Heaven. 



